Overview
- Diario Sport and Yahoo Sports reported Monday that tests at Barcelona’s training center found an ACL tear with an expected 8–9 month recovery.
- Pacífico suffered the knee injury in Sunday’s draw with UE Olot and needed help to leave the field.
- Barcelona brought him in on loan from Defensor Sporting in January with a purchase option in place.
- He had impressed for Barça Atlètic and trained at times with Hansi Flick’s first team, which had prompted talk of a permanent deal that now looks uncertain.
- The absence further thins Juliano Belletti’s squad during a promotion push already disrupted by several serious injuries.