Arne Slot has confirmed that Liverpool defender Giovanni Leoni will be out for ‘around a year’ with an ACL injury.
The teenager sustained the issue on debut for the club against Southampton in midweek. Leoni had impressed on his first appearance for Liverpool before disaster struck after an awkward fall at Anfield. Medicals tests have confirmed an ACL injury and Leoni faces a long road to recovery.
Slot admitted the 18-year-old defender is ‘not in a good place’ after the setback of a ‘terrible injury’.
“He is not in a good place because he tore his ACL which means he will be out around a year,” Slot said at his pre-match press conference ahead of facing Crystal Palace this weekend.
“Being so young and coming to a new country and playing so well in your first game, it’s very hard to take the positives.
“There is never a positive side but you try to look at that and that is that he is still so young and he has so many years still go to after he recovers from a terrible injury.”
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