{"id":20297,"date":"2025-09-26T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/liverpool-giovanni-leoni-out-for-about-a-year-with-acl-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:15:07","slug":"liverpool-giovanni-leoni-out-for-about-a-year-with-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/liverpool-giovanni-leoni-out-for-about-a-year-with-acl-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Giovanni Leoni out for ‘about a year’ with ACL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Liverpool defender Giovanni Leoni is out for “about a year” after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, manager Arne Slot says.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 18-year-old sustained the injury<\/a> on his debut against Southampton in the Carabao Cup third round<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Leoni joined the Reds in August<\/a> from Parma for a fee of \u00a326m plus add-ons.<\/p>\n

“He is not in a good place because he tore his ACL which means he will be out around a year,” said Slot.<\/p>\n

“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. <\/p>\n

“There is never a positive side but you try to look at that, and that is he is still so young and he has so many years still go to after he recovers from a terrible injury.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Liverpool defender Giovanni Leoni is out for “about a year” after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, manager Arne Slot says. The 18-year-old sustained the injury on his debut against Southampton in the Carabao Cup third round on Tuesday. Leoni joined the Reds in August from Parma for a fee of \u00a326m plus add-ons. “He is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20299,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions\/20299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}