{"id":734706,"date":"2026-02-01T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/734706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:20:13","slug":"who-was-liverpools-player-of-the-match-against-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/734706\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Liverpool&#8217;s Player of the Match against Newcastle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published 8 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Ibrahima Konate was voted Liverpool&#8217;s Player of the Match in the 4-1 victory against Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>The No.5 returned to the Reds line-up on Saturday night and helped secure three points in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Konate wrapped up his performance with a poignant goal in front of the Kop, following the recent passing of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters selected the defender as the team&#8217;s star man in the game in <a href=\"https:\/\/matchcentre.liverpoolfc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Match Centre<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player of the Match winners 2025-26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7 \u2013 Dominik Szoboszlai<\/p>\n<p>3 \u2013 Ryan Gravenberch, Florian Wirtz<\/p>\n<p>2 \u2013 Hugo Ekitike<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Conor Bradley, Federico Chiesa, Milos Kerkez, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk<\/p>\n<p>Published 8 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published 8 hours ago By Chris Shaw Ibrahima Konate was voted Liverpool&#8217;s Player of the Match in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1050,1051,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-734706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-reds","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115994167142497445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734706","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=734706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}