Barcelona have been dealt a cruel hand after goalkeeper and captain Marc-Andre ter Stegen was filmed in a wheelchair after his knee injury at the weekend.
Ter Stegen, 32, was stretchered off during Barca’s 5-1 rout of Villarreal and manager Hansi Flick immediately knew it was a ‘huge injury’, as he told DAZN.
The German custodian has torn the patellar tendon – which connects the kneecap to the shinebone – in his right knee and was tested at hospital in Villarreal.
Spanish outlet SPORT has reported that Barca will be without their first-choice goalkeeper for at least eight months, threatening to derail their idyllic start.
Barca have won all six of their LaLiga matches so far, with Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal, and Raphinha in particularly lethal form, and they have established a four-point gap over Real Madrid.
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