Marc André ter Stegen retired injured during the match between Villarreal and the Barcelona, after a bad fall. An injury that, due to not being made official by the Barcelona medical services, will keep him away from the pitch for 7 and 8 months. The goalkeeper misplaced his right leg while trying to recover an aerial ball and injured his knee. It was in the last minute of the first half. As soon as this happened, the players of both teams realized that the goal could not continue and requested medical assistance. The German retired on a stretcher and in tears.
The goalkeeper left the image of the match. In the last minute of the first half, he looked for an aerial ball and, when he fell, he landed badly. Immediately, he found himself on the ground with obvious gestures of pain, which led the referee of the match, Busquets Ferrer, to stop the game and ask for help. Shortly after the game ended, Cope’s channel announced that he had ruptured his patellar tendon and would require surgery.
Ter Stegen He was treated on the grass for a few minutes and left on a stretcher, in tears. While waiting for the tests, everything indicates that he is suffering from a serious injury, which will keep him away from the playing fields for several months and who knows if it could make him miss the rest of the season, even if it has only just begun.
A more than notable defeat for Barcelona, who at the time of the action were winning 1-2 at La Cerámica, thanks to a double from Lewandowski with which they manifested themselves. Ayozé He reduced the gap on an action on which the German goalkeeper could not do more.
Ter Stegen came from the failure of the match against Monaco, of the Champions League. The goalkeeper was the protagonist of Eric García’s expulsion, since he gave him the ball despite the fact that the footballer was closely marked by a rival, who ended up snatching the ball from him. In the second of the goals, they hesitated whether to go out or not and, finally, they ended up conceding the goal of defeat.
Despite this, in Villarreal, It could be offset by several saving actions. The goalkeeper intervened in a one-on-one match to prevent the yellow team from getting the equalizer moments before his injury. Grandpa He found himself alone in front of the goalkeeper, who saved the goal by getting his hand on the shot at the small post with which the Ivorian striker was looking for the score 2-2 on the scoreboard.
