{"id":465455,"date":"2025-10-01T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465455\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:57:10","slug":"injury-update-alisson-becker-and-hugo-ekitike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465455\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury update: Alisson Becker and Hugo Ekitike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goalkeeper was forced from the field in the second half of the Reds&#8217; 1-0 defeat at RAMS Park after making a save from Victor Osimhen in a one-on-one situation.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot&#8217;s side also lost Hugo Ekitike to an issue soon after in the Champions League encounter, with the forward set to undergo assessment by the club&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Alisson, the boss told his post-match press conference: &#8220;When he sprinted back he felt something. I cannot tell you [exactly] because I am not a physio, but normally when a player when he sprints back, feels something, goes to the floor and doesn&#8217;t come back onto the pitch [it&#8217;s not good]. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If my player is on the floor, I nine out of 10 times fear the worst \u2013 and by the worst I mean he cannot continue. That&#8217;s what happened with Alisson. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Normally, he will not be able to play Saturday. That&#8217;s 99.9 per cent \u2013 I&#8217;ve already said 100 per cent, but let&#8217;s make it 99.9 [although] I think it&#8217;s 100.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike was also replaced on 68 minutes in Istanbul having gone to ground after attempting to reach a ball forward and he too could miss the weekend visit to Stamford Bridge in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He felt something when he had to reach for the ball,\u201d added Slot. &#8220;I think we all know which one it was when we were trying to force something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think at that moment in time, on the other side there was someone on the floor as well, so the referee blew his whistle and I wasn&#8217;t even thinking we had an injury, but Hugo felt something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the game, that&#8217;s always the difficult thing with these moments when players feel like it is not too bad, but when you just walk around it is something different than when you make a sprint or have to shoot on target. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said he couldn&#8217;t continue so we had to take him off. Let&#8217;s see how he is for the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goalkeeper was forced from the field in the second half of the Reds&#8217; 1-0 defeat at RAMS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1050,1051,94,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-465455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-klopp","13":"tag-lfc","14":"tag-lfc-news","15":"tag-lfctv","16":"tag-lfctv-go","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","20":"tag-liverpool-football-club","21":"tag-mane","22":"tag-reds","23":"tag-salah","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115298320149293325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465455","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=465455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}