Liverpool’s season so far has been defined by good fortune in the final 10 minutes. Late winners may remain ever-present for now, but there are signs that their luck is beginning to run out.
Giovanni Leoni, their gargantuan 18-year-old Italian centre-back, is out for about a year with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, one suffered 80 minutes into what was a near-impeccable debut in the Carabao Cup. “He is not in a good place of course because he tore his ACL so he will be out for around a year,” Slot said. “Being so young, coming to a new country, playing so well in your first game, it is very hard to take a positive - there is no positive but he is still so young, has so many years to go after he recovers from a terrible injury like that.”
