Will Alves, a promising younger participant for Leicester, has sustained a season-ending knee harm, and Brendan Rodgers known as it “one of many worst challenges I’ve seen.”
The 17-year-old midfielder got here off the bench to play within the Foxes’ Carabao Cup victory away at MK Dons on Tuesday.
He began the next day’s FA Youth Cup sport in opposition to Wolves, the place he was on the receiving finish of an appalling sort out from Caden Voice.
The clip seems to indicate a transparent try and injure the participant, with Voice not showing to aim for the ball.
The problem sparked a heated altercation between Leicester and Wolves gamers and the referee instantly confirmed the Wolves participant a purple card for the horrific sort out.
The problem sparked a heated altercation between Leicester and Wolves gamers, and the referee instantly despatched the Wolves participant off for the horrific sort out.
Watch the sort out beneath:
Heartbreaking – Leicester Metropolis’s Will Alves will probably be out for 9 months after a horrific sort out by Wolves participant within the FA Youth Cup. Confirmed he has broken his ACL ? pic.twitter.com/TxXyaTioem
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