{"id":450992,"date":"2025-09-25T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:39:13","slug":"roberto-firmino-had-to-stop-shirt-off-celebration-after-unwanted-record-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450992\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Firmino had to stop ‘shirt off’ celebration after unwanted record – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugo Ekitike<\/a> is not the first Liverpool player to be booked for taking his shirt off after scoring, with Roberto Firmino<\/a> famously breaking the record for excessive celebration.<\/b><\/p>\n

Ekitike will miss Liverpool\u2019s trip to Crystal Palace<\/a> in the Premier League<\/a> after being shown a second yellow card for celebrating his winner against Southampton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman removed his shirt after tapping in to make it 2-1 late on in the Carabao Cup<\/a> and, having after being booked for punching the ball away earlier in the game, was sent off by referee Thomas Bramall.<\/p>\n

It was the correct decision and Arne Slot<\/a> was rightly angry with his striker for picking up a \u201cneedless and stupid<\/a>\u201d suspension.<\/p>\n

That transgression brought back memories of a player Ekitike has already been compared to in leading the line for Liverpool.<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool's<\/p>\n

Firmino became renowned for shirt-off celebrations in his early seasons at Liverpool \u2013 so much so that he had to stop doing so after a record number of bookings.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian left the club two years ago while still holding the record for the most yellow cards for \u2018excessive celebration\u2019 since records began in the Premier League<\/a> (five).<\/p>\n

Following another booking after a goal against Man City<\/a> in the league in January 2018, Firmino had been cautioned more times for excessive celebration than any other player in Europe\u2019s top five leagues since 2012\/13 (eight).<\/p>\n

He was booked two more times after scoring following that instance: for removing his shirt to mark his Club World Cup winner against Flamengo in 2019 and then leaping the advertising hoardings to celebrate with the away fans in the 2-0 win at Arsenal<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"GLASGOW,<\/p>\n

Firmino began making a point to start removing his shirt before pulling it back down as a tongue-in-cheek nod to his unwanted record.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s former No. 9 also rotated through a number of other inventive goal celebrations, often emulated by Sadio Mane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liverpool will have no concern over it becoming a habit for Ekitike, of course, particularly after Slot made it clear he would not accept it.<\/p>\n

Ekitike already told \u2018don\u2019t do it again\u2019<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports after the 2-1 victory over Southampton<\/a> at Anfield, vice-captain Andy Robertson<\/a> said he would be \u201cvery surprised if he does it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cScoring a goal is always emotional, but he\u2019s obviously just forgot he\u2019s been booked,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first one\u2019s stupidity, kicking the ball away, we know the rules around that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s two silly bookings to pick up and now we\u2019ll miss him for Saturday. It\u2019s silly from his part but he\u2019s only young and he\u2019ll learn from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy that he scored, but then the last 10 minutes it was made a bit more difficult going down to 10 men.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he\u2019ll learn from it and I\u2019m sure he won\u2019t do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike is not the first Liverpool player to be booked for taking his shirt off after scoring,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33024,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-450992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-roberto-firmino","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115266399379596654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450992","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=450992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}