The result wasn’t what we had hoped for and the overal performance was a little below par, but there were definite highlights for Liverpool at Wembley on Sunday.
Hugo Ekitike scored a superb goal in the fourth minute, showing us how important he’s going to be for the team this coming season.
“I think it’s always nice to score a goal – not only for him, also for Jeremie Frimpong – if you start your career at a new club, but it would have been even nicer to win a game of football because I think that’s more important than scoring a goal,” said Arne Slot after the game.
“He had a good impact but he is also an example of a player who came, I think, one-and-a-half to two weeks ago, at the end of our Asian tour. So for me, with only three or four days before the Friday game, it wouldn’t be smart to play him for 90 minutes because of course we have Federico but he has not been on the Asian tour as well, so there’s not a lot to replace him with.
“So, if he gets an injury at this moment of time, that would be a big risk for the Bournemouth, Newcastle and Arsenal games. That’s why I took him off but he had a good game today, that’s for sure.”
