{"id":358227,"date":"2025-08-20T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:43:11","slug":"ben-foster-explains-major-difference-already-between-hugo-ekitike-and-darwin-nunez-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358227\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Foster explains major difference already between Hugo Ekitike and Darwin Nunez at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hugo Ekitike has replaced Darwin Nunez at Liverpool in some style.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Frenchman has scored two goals in his first two games for Liverpool<\/a>, netting in the Community Shield defeat to Crystal Palace before opening the scoring against Bournemouth in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hugo Ekitike<\/a> has actually made the exact same start to life at Liverpool as Darwin Nunez<\/a> did \u2013 the Uruguay international scored against Manchester City in the 2022 Community Shield before also bagging against Fulham \u2013 but Ben Foster<\/a> has highlighted a notable difference between the two.<\/p>\n

Ben Foster feels Hugo Ekitike is a lot calmer than Darwin Nunez<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old believes the new Liverpool No.22 has a \u201ccalmness in front of goal\u201d that the South American lacked.<\/p>\n

Foster said when speaking on his The Cycling GK podcast: \u201cI put a little tweet out on Twitter that actually said: \u201cIs this prime Fernando Torres running around for Liverpool?\u201d A lot of people were saying, it\u2019s his first game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mean as a player. I mean, visually he looks like Fernando Torres. The way he moves, the way he was running. He\u2019s got that retro Liverpool shirt on. I thought he had a fantastic game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s got that calmness. I think that was the bit that was missing with Darwin Nunez, that little bit of calmness in front of goal when it really matters. That split-second moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Uruguayan was a tad chaotic at Liverpool, head-butting Joachim Andersen on just his second Premier League appearance, before also missing numerous open goals for the Reds.<\/p>\n

Ekitike does feel like a much calmer person than Nunez, who Mohamed Salah adores<\/a>, as well as a more relaxed footballer \u2013 you only need to see how well he took his goal against Bournemouth as proof of that.<\/p>\n

What the data says about Hugo Ekitike at Liverpool<\/p>\n

The Reds are very meticulous when it comes to recruitment, and the underlying data surrounding the 23-year-old striker makes for exciting reading.<\/p>\n

\"HugoPhoto by Michael Steele\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

A story from The Athletic states that Liverpool feel Ekitike is capable of emulating both Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe<\/a> in future \u2013 both of whom are arguably the two best players in Europe right now.<\/p>\n

If that proves to be true, the \u00a369m fee Liverpool paid to Eintracht Frankfurt will end up looking like a bargain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike has replaced Darwin Nunez at Liverpool in some style. The Frenchman has scored two goals in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[8904,162,94,5759,179,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-358227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-darwin-nunez","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-hugo-ekitike","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115058560775553868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}