The 18-year-old saw his Reds debut cut short on Tuesday evening at Anfield during a 2-1 Carabao Cup victory over Southampton.<\/p>\n
Leoni landed awkwardly following a challenge on the touchline in minute 81 of the contest and required the help of medical staff in leaving the field of play.<\/p>\n
Slot reported immediately post-match in midweek that he would require further tests to gain a full diagnosis of the problem.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of Saturday\u2019s Premier League trip to face Crystal Palace (3pm BST kick-off), the boss has now given further insight into the injury and was also asked if Federico Chiesa would now be expected to join his Champions League squad as a result.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, the last thing is true,” Slot told reporters on Friday morning at the AXA Training Centre. “And the first thing is he [Leoni] is not in a good place, of course, because he tore his ACL and it means he will be out for a year.<\/p>\n
“Being so young and coming to a new country and playing so well in your first game… it\u2019s very hard to take the positive side. There’s never a positive side – but you always try to look at a positive side and that is that he is still so young, so he has so many years still to go after he recovers from a terrible injury like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 18-year-old saw his Reds debut cut short on Tuesday evening at Anfield during a 2-1 Carabao Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-452487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115269910400029219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}