{"id":268525,"date":"2025-10-01T06:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:50:15","slug":"liverpool-rue-alisson-ekitike-injuries-in-costly-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268525\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool rue Alisson, Ekitike injuries in costly defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lindop_beth.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Beth LindopSep 30, 2025, 06:53 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN&#8217;s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> coach Arne Slot has confirmed goalkeeper <a data-player-guid=\"9d210b21-9daf-b76a-0d85-235471ad36a0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/196876\/alisson-becker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alisson Becker<\/a> will miss this weekend&#8217;s clash with <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> after sustaining an injury in his team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/report\/_\/gameId\/757676\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 defeat<\/a> to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b23d52e-b1ae-2e88-5263-936f59c03912\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galatasaray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2a051c42-4444-8263-799a-6cdd866bd8f7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=205\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> international was replaced by <a data-player-guid=\"2a5a14bb-897f-5475-33c4-c17eeb03db64\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/274742\/giorgi-mamardashvili\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/a> in the 56th minute after appearing to pick up a knock at Rams Park. He is now set to be ruled out of Saturday&#8217;s trip to Stamford Bridge, with further assessment of his injury to take place in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/46411022\/uefa-champions-league-live-updates-chelsea-benfica-galatasaray-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League recap: Galatasaray stun Liverpool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s never positive if you go off like this,&#8221; Slot told Amazon Prime Video after the game. &#8220;You can be sure he&#8217;s not going to play on Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alisson has had spells out injured in each of the past two seasons. Last season, he was out for more than two months &#8212; from early October to mid-December &#8212; with a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n<p>It was a disappointing night for Liverpool in Istanbul, with Galatasaray winning thanks to a first-half penalty from <a data-player-guid=\"bc44ea02-16c9-072a-8715-54722d58eab4\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/228296\/victor-osimhen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Osimhen<\/a> after <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/257206\/dominik-szoboszlai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> was adjudged to have committed a foul in the box.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Alisson Becker was forced off with an injury in Liverpool&#8217;s defeat to Galatasaray.\u00a0Liverpool FC\/Liverpool FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Reds also lost striker <a data-player-guid=\"266fab4f-4b99-384e-8dd4-833b3d1d1367\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/304901\/hugo-ekitike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Ekitike<\/a> to injury as the forward limped off midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He felt something when he had to reach for the ball,&#8221; added Slot in his news conference.<\/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<p>The injuries compounded a disappointing evening for Liverpool, who have now lost consecutive games for just the second time in Slot&#8217;s tenure following a defeat at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace<\/a> in the Premier League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, disappointed,&#8221; the Liverpool boss said. &#8220;For me, this was a different performance on and off the ball [than Crystal Palace]. First half we played quite well and had a big chance to go up 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is difficult to compare this situation to before. We are sometimes a bit outsmarted in situations like this, and I cannot blame Dominik Szoboszlai for the situation. They make a 20% penalty a 100% penalty, which is very smart from them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not so far [off the level shown last season]. This is sometimes what the schedule can bring, Galatasaray is not a simple game. We now play Chelsea away, a difficult game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slot added: &#8220;The margins are small, and they were last season. For the second time in a row, we are on the wrong side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw a lot of things in the first half, but the second half was much less. I don&#8217;t think in the second half there was a lot of playing time. Their striker was on the floor four or five times. It was difficult to get momentum in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth LindopSep 30, 2025, 06:53 PM ET Close Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN&#8217;s Liverpool correspondent and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-268525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115297585046245233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}