Arne Slot has confirmed that Giovanni Leoni will undergo further assessment following the injury that forced him off during Liverpool\u2019s 2-1 Carabao Cup win over Southampton on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
The 18-year-old\u2019s promising debut<\/a> was cut short after 81 minutes when he landed awkwardly following a challenge near the touchline.<\/p>\n The club\u2019s medical staff will now evaluate him to determine the extent of the injury.<\/p>\n “Of course, he is down because for him it didn\u2019t feel good immediately, but this is something now we have to assess,\u201d Slot told the media.<\/p>\n “Normally, these things don\u2019t happen in five to 10 minutes and you have to wait for tomorrow to see how he comes in and then maybe do an MRI scan to know more about how serious it is.<\/p>\n “The emotions of a player tell you a lot. I saw a player in the Dutch Eredivisie during the weekend, Ruben van Bommel<\/a> of PSV<\/a>, who went out completely in tears, and a day later it proved to be right. Let\u2019s hope for the best.”<\/p>\n Leoni<\/a> joined Liverpool<\/a> in the summer from Parma<\/a> for a reported \u00a326 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot has confirmed that Giovanni Leoni will undergo further assessment following the injury that forced him off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-165682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}