Former Barca's Cillessen undergoes emergency surgery after collision with Borja Iglesias

Las Palmas goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, substituted due to injury this Monday in the La Liga EA Sports match against Celta because of a strong collision with striker Borja Iglesias, has suffered “abdominal trauma” with a possible “intestinal involvement” and is “stable” and under “observation” in a hospital in Vigo, according to Diosdado Bolanos, doctor of the Canary Islands team, in statements to 'El Chiringuito' of 'Mega'.

“The player is stable and we will wait for the general surgeon's instructions. He will have to remain under observation,” Bolanos pointed out.

“He has a closed abdominal trauma and it seems that there is some kind of intestinal involvement or something like that, but he is stable and normally these are controls that are made evolutionary or depending on the evolution it will be decided whether to adopt a surgical conduct or not, but for the moment everything is going well,” added the doctor to ‘El Chiringuito’.

Subsequent observations of the Dutch goalkeeper apparently confirmed an intestinal perforation, which is why the club's doctors, in agreement with the hospital in Vigo where Cillessen spent the night, decided to operate on him. For now, there is no further information about his state of health.

In the 23rd minute of the match of the 29th round of LaLiga EA Sports between Celta and Las Palmas at the Balaidos stadium in Vigo, a long ball to Borja Iglesias ended in a fortuitous collision with the attacker's knees in the abdomen of the Dutch goalkeeper, who was left lying on the ground with a lot of pain in the left area.

After being treated for a few minutes, the medical staff of Las Palmas called for the substitution of the goalkeeper, who was stretchered off the pitch and taken to a hospital in the Galician city.