Arne Adapter owns defined what “one-of-a-kind” Liverpool demonstrator Hugo Ekitike “needs” to do to centralize his game ahead of their clash via Dude Municipal room on Sunday.
Ekitike signed upward via Liverpool for £69m in the summer season season from Eintracht Frankfurt as well as owns so far affirmed to be the single player in their £420m summer season season haul to have rendered anything coming cozy to a optimistic overture to spiritedness at Anfield.
He’s got 6 objectives as well as an assist in 15 arcades for the Reds so far as well as owns frequently showed his cool footwork in tight places upward pinnacle, as nicely as some commendable enveloping at times.
Signed in unchanged summer season season as Alexander Isak, who signed upward via on target date day from Newcastle for £125m after rather the send saga, it had been asserted that Ekitike could struggle for game time.
But a mixture of negative kind, fitness as well as injuries owns noted the 23-year-worn play a major job so far, as well as he’s kit to overture in Liverpool’s crunch clash via Manchester Municipal room on Sunday as Isak owns single simply reverted to coaching. He’s endorse in “pre-season” anew, reportedly.
And ahead of the game at the Etihad, Adapter lauded Ekitike’s ‘sweet touch for a vast dude’ but in a similar way hinted at his realistically negative battle profitability price.
Chatting in his pre-match press conference, the Dutchman asserted: “That is what makes him one-of-a-kind, if you’re that high as well as your footwork is as sweet as his.
“That’s what makes him one-of-a-kind, if you’re so high, he needs to be more powerful in duels.”
According to Fotmob, Ekitike owns won simply 36.7 per dime of his duels as well as 37.9 per dime of his airborne duels in the Premier League this season.
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Liverpool tale Jamie Carragher is thrown for a loop by his former side finalizing both Ekitike as well as Isak this summer season season, claiming his “mind boggles” as to how Adapter is attending preserve both gamers cheerful going forward.
Carragher asserted on Skies Sports: “I could intimately realise it’s not easy, as well as this was always my reservation about amassing 2 demonstrators for that a substantial amount coinage who both play in unchanged posture.
“It’s horribly taxing to go to a Liverpool team furnish consumption of 2 demonstrators on the mart, it’s not easy to do that. So I realise attempting to furnish consumption of Isak in the team also though Ekitike was performing nicely – since he’s a wonderful player, he’s got to furnish consumption of him match as well as he’s in a similar way paid opposite coinage for him.
“My mind boggles going forward how this is attending job, but proper now Ekitike’s got the shirt, he’s playing genuinely nicely as well as it will arguably do Isak a tiny snippet of sweet if he’s out of the team to construct his fitness upward in coaching a substantial amount more.”
