{"id":170756,"date":"2025-09-21T00:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170756\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:31:20","slug":"hugo-ekitike-i-knew-how-important-the-derby-was-to-the-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170756\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike: I knew how important the derby was to the fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No.22 was satisfied to have made another significant contribution for the champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really good,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to score every game, if you ask me. The last game I didn\u2019t score but I always try to find a way to make the difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be a goal, an assist, a run to create space for another player. It\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end, the most important [thing] is the team and it\u2019s the three points today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His early-season form has quickly endeared Ekitike to the Anfield faithful and his own fan chant rang out multiple times again during the derby.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the France international was basking in the support after the final whistle as he showed his appreciation to Kopites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s top, honestly I really like it. I said, every time I want it more loud,\u201d said the forward. \u201cSo, I will try to keep scoring for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Liverpool collectively, it is now five wins out of five in the Premier League alongside the 3-2 defeat of Atletico Madrid in midweek to begin the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>But Ekitike is not getting carried away, with so much football ahead in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cFootball is moments, we can be happy today until tomorrow and when we wake up we have to go again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have on Tuesday a cup game and we just have to focus and keep going. Our schedule is busy, we just have games and we have to reach goals all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No.22 was satisfied to have made another significant contribution for the champions. \u201cIt\u2019s really good,\u201d he said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-170756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","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-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}