Captain Dani Carvajal will not be available to Real Madrid for a long time.
The defender, who won the European Championship with Spain in the summer, suffered a serious injury to his right knee in the championship match against Villarreal (2-0) on Saturday.
According to a statement from the club, the 32-year-old Carvajal has torn his anterior cruciate ligament, torn his lateral collateral ligament and ruptured his popliteus tendon. The unlucky player will undergo surgery in the next few days.