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Ibrahima Konate was back to his best on Saturday(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\nIbrahima Konate sent quite the message to Liverpool during the thrilling win against Tottenham, producing one of his best performances of the season for the Reds<\/p>\n
Fasika Zelealem Senior Sports Reporter <\/p>\n
06:00, 21 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Ibrahima Konate was back to his best on Saturday(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Ibrahima Konate showed the best side of himself in Liverpool’s 2-1 Premier League victory over Tottenham.<\/p>\n
In a season that the Frenchman has made countless individual errors, his performance in London on Saturday<\/a> was a keen reminder of just how impressive he’s been throughout his tenure on Merseyside<\/a>. Dominant in the air with Randal Kolo Muani rarely getting a sniff at goal, it was his late and match-winning block of Richarlison’s shot that saw the Reds clinch the much-needed three points to jump up to fifth in the table.<\/p>\n A misplaced pass from Curtis Jones saw the Brazilian be put through on goal, but with Jones, Konate<\/a>, and Virgil van Dijk closing in on the striker, it was the Frenchman’s block of his shot that left him with just one goal in the game.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Arne Slot gives grim update on Alexander Isak as Liverpool fans fear ACL injury<\/a>READ MORE: Gary Neville sums up Alexander Isak agony as Liverpool fears ACL injury<\/a><\/p>\n That wasn’t Konate’s only game-changing moment of the match, as just minutes later, he endured a kick to the mid-section by Cristian Romero, who was shown a second yellow card for his shocking kick-out by referee John Brooks.<\/p>\n Romero’s antics were slammed by ex-Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Jamie Redknapp, who said on Sky Sports: “What Romero did was what Romero does.<\/p>\n “If my four-year-old did that, I would say, ‘What are you doing?'”<\/p>\n Former Premier League referee Darren Cann said of the incident: “It’s a petulant kick out at Konate – and that’s without doubt a second yellow for Romero.<\/p>\n “John Brooks had no option other than to send him off for a second booking.”<\/p>\n It was only earlier this month when Konate hit rock bottom after his role in Liverpool giving up a 2-0 lead in the eventual 3-3 draw with Leeds.<\/p>\n His reckless challenge on Wilfried Gnonto saw the home side awarded a penalty, which kick-started a comeback.<\/p>\n It was after the game when Slot lamented his constant mistakes during the season as he said: “Unfortunately for him, he does a lot of things well, but he has been a bit too much at the crime scene, that is something I\u2019ve heard people saying before in England.<\/p>\n “So that means that he\u2019s been involved in goals we\u2019ve conceded, but if you are a center-back that happens in football.<\/p>\n “Today, it was a tackle that came from effort. He tried to do everything to block the cross. The ball went out, the player already went down a little bit, and then there was contact. That was obvious and clear, that there was contact.<\/p>\n “Now, the question is, should VAR have interfered for that? A lot of people will say that\u2019s correct, but these same people should look at some games we\u2019ve played this season where the VAR didn\u2019t come in moments like this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ibrahima Konate sent quite the message to Liverpool during the thrilling win against Tottenham, producing one of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,86689,7886,85,2645],"class_list":["post-362448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-ibrahima-konate","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cristian](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_GettyImages-2252876312.jpg\")
Cristian Romero clashes with Konate(Image: 2025 Getty Images)<\/p>\n