Sissoko's vision 'compromised'

A clinical director at the Lisbon hospital where Mohamed Sissoko has received treatment has said the Liverpool midfielder’s vision will be “compromised”.

Mali international Sissoko was carried off just 35 minutes into Tuesday’s 1-0 defeat against Benfica after being kicked in the head by Benfica’s Brazilian midfielder Beto.

Sissoko, complaining of blurred vision, was left behind in Lisbon while the team returned home.

Tests yesterday morning confirmed the 21-year-old has suffered damage to the retina in his right eye.

“The prognosis is guarded but vision is going to be compromised on the right side, it may be 80% or 20%, but we can’t say yet,” clinical director Joao Paco told the Daily Express.

“He suffered trauma with bruising to the eye but there was no apparent destruction of the structure.”