Frankfurt, Liverpool and Ekitike
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Champions League: Hugo Ekitike's classy gesture in Frankfurt moves the web!
Liverpool’s trip to Frankfurt may have begun with tension, but it ended in triumph — and for Hugo Ekitike, it marked another defining step in a growing Anfield story. The French striker, once a hero at Deutsche Bank Park,
NO Mohamed Salah, no problem. Arne Slot made some big calls and rotated, or rather dropped, nearly half his team in a bid to avoid his side slumping to the club’s worst run in 72 years. And that
Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz shone against German opposition on Wednesday evening as Liverpool battered Frankfurt 5-1 in the Champions League. Florian Wirtz impressed Liverpool fans with his two assists, which were very much needed in a Reds shirt after a shaky start.
Eintracht Frankfurt have earned a sterling reputation for developing players from the promising bracket to top-class and selling them on for significant profit in recent years, particularly in attacking positions.
Footage circulated on social media last week showed the 23-year-old wearing a Frankfurt kit while participating in a shooting exercise during international duty with France. Despite spending fewer than two years in Germany,
Liverpool's Hugo Ekitike scored a ruthless breakaway goal against his former team in a 5-1 Champions League thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt that ended the Reds' woeful streak of four consecutive losses across all competitions.