Liverpool’s thin defender corps will be thinner for a while as center back Giovanni Leoni’s leg injury is reportedly an ACL tear.

Leoni, 18, arrived from Parma this summer and made his Reds debut on Tuesday in the side’s League Cup triumph over Southampton .

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The club are yet to confirm the severity of Leoni’s injury, but Fabrizio Romano reports that it’s a “torn ACL” which will keep him out for “months.”

Leoni became a regular starter for Parma in the second half of last season, spending a lot of time at center back but also playing on the right side of the back line.

What Arne Slot said Tuesday after the injury

from liverpoolfc.com

“Of course, he is down because for him it didn’t feel good immediately, b

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