Alarm in the Barcelona goal. Marc-André Ter Stegen leaves the German national team camp and returns to Barcelona due to lower back problems. This was confirmed by the German coach, Julian Nagelsmann. “He will miss both games because he suffers from acute pain in his back. He will fly to Barcelona tomorrow (this Saturday). I hope that he will be available again soon to play with his team,” stated the coach. In this way, the goalkeeper will not be able to play in Germany’s friendlies against Turkey (Saturday) in Berlin and against Austria on Tuesday in Vienna.
Ter Stegen will return to Barcelona with the aim of being ready for Barça’s next league match against Rayo Vallecano in Vallecas (Saturday, November 25). Later, Barça has to host Porto (November 28), Atlético (December 3) and Girona (December 10).
Just when Barcelona’s infirmary was close to emptying, with De Jong and Sergi Roberto in the final stretch of their recoveries, this setback arrived.
“I don’t know exactly how it happened. I only know that she has severe lower back pain that greatly limits her movements. On Thursday it already hurt a little but in the last training session it got worse,” added the German coach.
In the 2014-15 season, his first season at the Camp Nou, he missed twelve matches between Barça and the German team due to a lumbar contusion that left him out of the competition for a month.
