This Sunday, FC Barcelona won comfortably on the Villarreal pitch (5-1). A major victory, allowing Hansi Flick’s men to stay at the top of La Liga, with a clean sheet for the moment. But this nice victory has clearly been overshadowed by Marc-André ter Stegen who was seriously injured. On a corner at the end of the first half, the German goalkeeper was charged by several opposing players and his knee quickly gave way as he fell.
He left crying and with his hands covering his face as he was carried off on a stretcher by the Catalan club’s doctors and was replaced by Inaki Pena, in stoppage time of the first half. And the latest information regarding his injury, coming from Catalonia Radioare surprising since his unavailability could last at least eight to nine months and the German goalkeeper could therefore not play for the entire season.
A massacre of injuries at Barça
The German goalkeeper may have damaged the patellar tendon in his right knee, where he has already undergone surgery. “We won 1-5 at Villarreal. It was a fantastic game from both teams. But for Ter Stegen, we have to wait and see. It looks like a serious injury, he felt it, you could see it on the pitch”said Hansi Flick after the match, being pessimistic for his goalkeeper.
A huge blow for FC Barcelona, who therefore lose their key player for the rest of the season, in addition to seven other injured players among the first team with Frenkie De Jong, Dani Olmo, Ronald Araujo, Gavi, Andreas Christensen, Marc Bernal and Firmin Lopez. Iñaki Peña will therefore have to do the job for a long time, unless Barça decides to recruit a new emergency goalkeeper to compensate for the long-term injury of the German international.
