Newcastle United defender Florian Lejeune admits his latest injury setback left him in tears.

Lejeune is working his way back from a second ACL in just 12 months.

The second injury came last season against Crystal Palace.

“The hardest part of it all for me was from the moment I got injured to when I was back in the dressing room.

“Those ten minutes or so were very, very hard to take psychologically.

“I actually cried at that point. Emotionally I just let myself go and then when I was back in the dressing room I knew exactly what I had done, even though I was yet to have a scan. I knew what it was, and I had to say to myself, more rehab and more hard work on the road to regaining fitness.

“Subconsciously, you start asking yourself lots of questions. You say to yourself, maybe I came back too quickly, maybe other things, lots of things really. In the end I wondered whether I should go back to Rome or go somewhere else and take my time more because it was the summer break. I had no reason to rush at all."