{"id":531706,"date":"2026-04-15T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:34:08","slug":"arne-slot-fears-really-bad-ekitike-injury-and-laments-missed-liverpool-chances-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531706\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot fears \u2018really bad\u2019 Ekitik\u00e9 injury and laments missed Liverpool chances | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot once again lamented Liver\u00adpool\u2019s wastefulness in front of goal after they were knocked out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> and suffered the added blow of losing Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 to a potentially serious injury.<\/p>\n

Liverpool produced a vastly improved second-leg display against the European champions but exited at the quarter-final stage after a 4-0 aggregate defeat. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 scored twice late on to extinguish Anfield\u2019s hope of another European comeback.<\/p>\n

Slot said: \u201cI have to give a lot of credit to the players for how hard they worked and to the fans for helping us execute our gameplan by always getting behind us. Unfortunately it was another example of us not being able to score from one of the many chances we had.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very disappointed because there were parts of the second half where you could feel, \u2018If we could just score now, this could become a very special night.\u2019 But the future looks very bright for this team, for this club. We have showed we can compete with the champions of Europe in our stadium. To be the dominant team, not many teams can be dominant against PSG and create as many chances as we did. Creating chances is one thing though, scoring is another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ekitik\u00e9 was taken off on a stretcher with a suspected achilles injury after going down in the 27th minute under no pressure from a PSG player.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks really bad but we don\u2019t know how bad yet,\u201d said Slot. \u201cWe all see the video and the clips, it doesn\u2019t look good. For only 88 minutes until tonight we have played with Florian [Wirtz], Alex [Alexander Isak] and Hugo, and we added about 27 to that tonight. I would be surprised if we add any more minutes to that this season. The good thing is, Alex is back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think probably last week we had too much luck and we ran out of luck today,\u201d said Slot. \u201cIf a pen is given, usually VAR tells you, \u2018I see contact and I support the on-field decision.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t surprised that this went against us, it\u2019s happened so often this season, but that wasn\u2019t the story of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot once again lamented Liver\u00adpool\u2019s wastefulness in front of goal after they were knocked out of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}