Liverpool honcho Arne Slot owns hit out at Hugo Ekitike for his “injudicious” verdict to snag off his shirt and snub group-friend Federico Chiesa in their League Cup win over Southampton.
The Reds took the lead on 43 minutes via Alexander Isak racking up his initially eagerness for the bar obeying his lured-out summer season transfer from Newcastle United.
Shea Charles got a deserved equaliser for Southampton on 76 minutes yet Liverpool struck earlier via five minutes lingering via Ekitike.
After being located from a sphere overboard, Chiesa ran into the penalty elbowroom and moved the sphere across to Ekitike to tap dwelling past Alex McCarthy in the Saints web.
Instead of revolving spheric to rejoice via the Italy international, Ekitike ran to the alcove flag to snag off his shirt and stress his moniker to the clog.
Ekitike, who had currently been booked, got a 2nd yellow card for snatching his top off and Slot was irritated by the Liverpool striker’s openings.
Slot briefed ITV: “I didn’t realize it.
“Possibly I’m a particle antiquated made and a particle antiquated company, yet if I scored a eagerness after going past three men and hit it in the top alcove, I would undoubtedly have perhaps expressed joy wholly by myself.
“But if I got an assist prefer that one from Federico Chiesa, I most likely would undoubtedly have revolved about and recommended at him prefer ‘yeah you have funnelled out this totality eagerness for me’.
“So that’s why I was a miniscule particle particle astonished that is how he expressed joy. And even worse, took his shirt off and got his 2nd yellow.
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“Not utterly provided that it was a 2nd yellow yet it always injudicious to snag your shirt off and snag a yellow provided that if this adheres to someplace in the arcade every time you render a foul it can be a 2nd yellow.
“I believe if you score a eagerness prefer this, I would undoubtedly have visited the man who funnelled out the assist, yet that is not so super understandable, it’s injudicious to snag your shirt off.”
On the red card, Slot added in his press conference: “Clearly no, I would undoubtedly prefer to overture via something optimistic, which is not optimistic yet the tribute we offered Matt Beard was, I believe, of Liverpool standards.
“How the visionaries always execute this is something that makes me proud to stand for this bar, how we always locate a means to be so understanding for world that have imposed so a cluster for our bar.
“Then we go without standstill provided that of your agitation to the last minutes of the arcade, in which Hugo got a 2nd yellow card. What were your 2 words? That was ‘needless’, of course. And it was ‘injudicious’. Yeah, it was.
“The initially one was currently needless and to a details level injudicious, provided that you have to control your emotions. I realize how facility it is if you dabble Premier League or every league in the universe, if you are a Clearly no.9 after that the defender can almost execute every little thing he wants, and after that when you shirt-yank a miniscule particle particle or you push him a miniscule particle particle after that you acquire a unshackle-kick versus you.
“But it’s always the guiltless to control your emotions, and if you cannot control your emotions execute it in a means that doesn’t lead to a yellow card. I believe I said when I got my red card versus Everton [last season], that is always injudicious provided that you can stress your emotions yet if it leads to a yellow or a red card after that it’s injudicious. And that’s what arised in the initially yellow.
“I briefed him as perfectly and I said it to numerous media currently, if you score in a Champs League last in the 87th minutes after fleeing behind three players and striking it in the top alcove, I can perhaps realize that you’re prefer, ‘This is with one voice about me, what did I execute?’ But I am antiquated made, I’m 47 and antiquated perhaps.
“I refuge’t played at this degree yet I did score a few objectives and if I would undoubtedly have scored a eagerness prefer this, I would undoubtedly have revolved about and strolled up to, in this case, Federico Chiesa and said, ‘This eagerness is with one voice about you, this is not about me.’ So, yeah, needless, not smart. You mobile phone phone call it injudicious. I mobile phone phone call it injudicious, by the means, as perfectly.”
