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Beth LindopAug 16, 2025, 06:41 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.<\/p>\n LIVERPOOL, England — Liverpool<\/a> head coach Arne Slot has said he expects forward Federico Chiesa<\/a> to stay at Anfield this season following his match-winning performance against Bournemouth on Friday.<\/p>\n The Italy<\/a> international has struggled for playing time since arriving in a \u00a312 million ($16m) transfer from Juventus<\/a> last summer, making just one Premier League<\/a> start last term.<\/p>\n – Liverpool find strength to beat Bournemouth in Premier League<\/a> But he made an immediate impact to start the new league season, coming off the bench to restore Liverpool’s advantage after they had surrendered a two-goal lead against Andoni Iraola’s side. Mohamed Salah<\/a> then struck in stoppage time to secure a 4-2 victory<\/a> for the hosts at Anfield.<\/p>\n Chiesa has been heavily linked with a return to Italy this summer but, asked on Friday where the player’s future lies, Slot said: “As long as he’s here, it’s definitely at Liverpool and I have no reason to believe something is going to change. He had a hard time last season getting his fitness ready.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately for him he missed out on our Asian tour as well so he missed quite a lot. When we needed Federico at 2-2, we brought him in and he delivered and that’s always positive for your future at the club.<\/p>\n “After the fans sung for him so many times during the game and last season as well, I think it’s nice for him to give them something in return and that’s definitely what he did today.”<\/p>\n The goal was Chiesa’s first in the Premier League and means all three of his goals in a Liverpool shirt have come in the 88th minute or later.<\/p>\n Liverpool next face Newcastle United at St. James’ Park on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth LindopAug 16, 2025, 06:41 AM CloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-73374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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– Liverpool pay emotional tribute to Jota at opener<\/a><\/p>\nFederico Chiesa celebrates after scoring to put Liverpool ahead against Bournemouth.\u00a0Liverpool FC\/Liverpool FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n