European football: Carvajal suffers serious knee injury in Real Madrid win

Real Madrid’s Dani Carvajal will undergo surgery after rupturing two knee ligaments and a tendon in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Villarreal, the player confirmed on Sunday.The defender was stretchered off in stoppage time after injuring his right knee during a duel with the Villarreal midfielder Yeremy Pino. “Serious cruciate ligament injury confirmed, I’ll have to undergo surgery and be off the field for a few months,” Carvajal said on Sunday morning.“Looking forward to starting the recovery process and coming back like an animal. Thank you all for your messages, I feel very loved,” Carvajal added in a statement posted on Instagram, alongside a picture of himself in an ambulance taken after Saturday’s match.In a separate statement on Sunday, Real said Carvajal had been “diagnosed with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, a ruptured external collateral ligament and a ruptured popliteal tendon in his right leg.”Real later announced that they had extended…