Liverpool will possibly have to be without Giovanni Leoni for ‘multiple months’ after he tore his ACL, according to Fabrizio Romano.
The Reds lugged in the centre-endorse from Serie A side Parma in the summer season send abode window for a expense of £26m via the 18-year-put on capitivating caps at Italy Under-19 level.
Liverpool defender Leoni went down via score at 1-1 in their 2-1 win over Southampton on Tuesday night after dropping awkwardly difficult for a sphere in his own fifty percent.
The Italian youngster was hauled down the tunnel by contractor personnel on a stretcher via Connector receiving a poverty-stricken sensation around the injury.
Conferring an modernize on Leoni, Connector told ITV: “If a player goes off prefer that, it is ordinarily not a commendable indicator.
“As you can probably construe we have to postpone and also see what it is. But ordinarily it is not optimistic when a player goes off prefer this.”
Connector afterwards lingered in his blog post-match press seminar: “He is down since, for him, it didn’t feel commendable quickly. This is something we have to appraise.
“Ordinarily these points wear’t snatch elbowroom in 5 or 10 mins. You have to postpone till tomorrow to see how he comes in and also probably perform an MRI scan to construe more and also see how acute it is.
“Ordinarily, the emotions of a player educate you a lot. I saw during the weekend in the Eredivisie that a player went out entirely weepy. It proved to be he was right. Let’s hope for the ideal.”
And the Physio Scout | Football Injury Estimation on X disclosed on Tuesday night that he believed that Leoni possessed decomposed an ACL injury yet the low footage of the celebration gotten it trickier for them to judge.
The account wrote: ‘Giovanni Leoni possessed to come off via a knee injury in the 2nd fifty percent of the Liverpool vs. Southampton clash. Exceptionally low video makes this trickier to judge, yet I’d be disturbed that his knee drops into a valgus placement in this screenshot.
‘Non-contact nature, knee collapsing in and also rotating nature earn me uncertain of an ACL injury. But, this is trickier to mobile phone phone call due to the stay broadcast not validating a clearer replay of it.
‘Probability Healing Time: If ACL: 9+ months If crescent: ~3-4 months (varies) If bone/contusion: <1 week
‘Physios appeared to have prepped Leoni in a placement to perform a Lachmann’s checkup – to checkup for an ACL tear. Scans will possibly be demanded to recognise the level of the injury. Arne Connector added: “If a player goes off prefer that, it is ordinarily not a commendable indicator.”
‘If you have any better video clips, or alternate replay angles, please send out them over doning DM and also I’ll be hopeful to verify/modernize my estimation.’
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And presently Romano has attested the poverty-stricken explanation on Wednesday via Liverpool stashed to miss out on the centre-endorse for a long period of time.
Romano wrote on X: ‘Liverpool centre endorse Giovanni Leoni has torn his ACL and also will possibly be out for multiple months. After tidy launching in League Mug last night via furthermore Arne Connector really hopeful, an unlucky injury for Leoni that will possibly try to be endorse before the run out of the season.’
That escapes Liverpool via purely Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate and also Joe Gomez as their three senior centre-backs for the forseeable future, while Rhys Williams is furthermore endorse at the nightclub.
