Liverpool suffered a pair of injuries in Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League match at Galatasaray, as Hugo Ekitike has joined Alisson Becker in making an early exit.
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Ekitike was reaching for an errant pass when he hit the turf with what appeared to be a muscular injury.
He was replaced by Alexis Mac Allister, as Ekitike only was able to spend five minutes on the pitch alongside sub Alexander Isak.
Ekitike limped off the field in clear distress. He’s been a very durable player in his career, rarely missing time.
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Liverpool Echo writer Paul Gorst has this from Slot.
“He felt something when he reached for the ball, so referee blew his whistle and I didn’t even think we had an injury but Hugo felt something. When you just walk off it’s different to sprinting.”
Pretty open-ended from Slot, who will surely be hoping Ekitike is available to face Chelsea at the weekend.
Isak went less than a half-hour, and will be expected to start Saturday — and may have been atop the attack regardless — for a big Premier League scrap with Chelsea at 12:30pm ET Saturday inside of Stamford Bridge.
