Giovanni Leoni, a Liverpool defender, has a suspected anterior cruciate ligament injury that will keep him out for months.
Before going off with the injury, the 18-year-old played 81 minutes of Tuesday’s 2-1 Carabao Cup third-round victory over Southampton.
Leoni, who signed for Parma for £26 million plus add-ons in August, has since had knee tests.
According to sources, the center-back’s ACL has been damaged, which would likely prevent the teenager from playing for the majority of the season, if not for the entire season.
He is down because he didn’t immediately feel good about it. After Tuesday’s game, Liverpool head coach Arne Slot stated that “typically the emotions of a player tell you a lot.”
With Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, and Joe Gomez among the three players who have been injured, Slot currently has just three center-backs.
Federico Chiesa, a forward, and Leoni are among the candidates for inclusion in Liverpool’s Champions League squad.
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Source: BBC
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