Ter Stegen suffered a fracture of the patella tendon in his ultimate knee, Barcelona acknowledged on Monday.
Reuters
24 September, 2024, 02:55 pm
Final modified: 24 September, 2024, 03:04 pm
Germany head coach Julian Nagelsmann acknowledged news of Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s serious knee harm came as a famous shock after the Barcelona goalkeeper underwent an operation that is anticipated to sideline him for at least eight months.
The 32-yr-worn fell badly after leaping for a ball all the very top blueprint through Barcelona’s 5-1 LaLiga accumulate over Villarreal on Sunday and became visibly in distress as he became carried off the pitch on a stretcher.
His weight fell on the excellent knee on which he had two operations within the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons.
“The news of Marc’s harm became a enormous shock for us,” acknowledged Nagelsmann, who has now lost two experienced goalkeepers in a month following Manuel Neuer’s global retirement in August.
“We are going to miss him loads on and off the pitch,” Nagelsmann suggested the German FA (DFB) web living on Monday.
“We desire Marc all of the excellent … we are in a position to continually be there for him on his formulation assist.”
Nagelsmann had chosen two uncapped keepers, TSG Hoffenheim’s Oliver Baumann and VfB Stuttgart’s Alexander Nubel, as assist-up for Ter Stegen in Countries League fits towards Hungary and Netherlands earlier this month.
Fulham’s Bernd Leno, who has nine caps, became known as up to the squad in March but failed to play.
Germany, prime of their Countries League community with four aspects after two fits, will play Bosnia and Netherlands in October.
