Tegola for Barcelona: season over for Marc-André ter Stegen

Barcelona: season over for Marc-André ter Stegen

After coming out in tears during the first half of the league match against Villarreal, the instrumental examinations to which Marc-André ter Stegen è underwent have confirmed the very bad feelings Barcelona had about the'magnitudeà of the injury. The blaugrana goalkeeper, in fact, suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in his right knee that will keep him in the pits for the rest of the season.

"Tests performed on first team player Marc ter Stegen confirm that he has suffered a complete rupture of the patellar tendon in his right knee. He will undergo surgery on Monday afternoon. The Barça goalkeeper had to leave the field at the Estadio de la Cerámica at the end of the first half: the German national was visibly sore and was quickly replaced by Iñaki Peña.

This season, the Barça captain è always took the field. His presence against Villarreal è was his 289th with the blaugrana jersey and led him to surpass legendary goalkeeper Antoni Ramallets in third place on the all-time list of the most goalkeepers present with Barcelona" this is the note issued by the Catalan club.

Given the long stop of the German goalkeeper, Barcelona could go back to the free market to acquire another goalkeeper to alternate or be the deputy of Iñaki Peña.