{"id":70419,"date":"2025-08-16T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70419\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:15:08","slug":"who-was-liverpools-player-of-the-match-against-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70419\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Liverpool&#8217;s Player of the Match against Bournemouth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published 6 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Hugo Ekitike was voted Liverpool\u2019s Player of the Match on his Premier League debut.<\/p>\n<p>The French forward marked his first appearance in England\u2019s top flight with the opening goal and later an assist as the Reds defeated AFC Bournemouth 4-2 at Anfield on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>And in our <a href=\"https:\/\/matchcentre.liverpoolfc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match Centre<\/a> poll for supporters to select the team\u2019s star man, Ekitike emerged as the No.1 pick to take the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Published 6 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published 6 hours ago By Chris Shaw Hugo Ekitike was voted Liverpool\u2019s Player of the Match on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":["post-70419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70419","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=70419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}