The Reds are set to return to action following the international break by welcoming Nottingham Forest to Anfield on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a game that begins a series of seven in just 21 days for Arne Slot\u2019s side across two competitions.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, it\u2019s a challenge Ekitike believes he and his teammates are ready to tackle, telling Liverpoolfc.com: \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a tough period with a lot of games \u2013 not easy games. The games before the internationals were obviously difficult, too. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to need to stick together and really support each other because it is going to be a busy period with a lot of matches. But I am confident. I think we can do something; we have a lot of games to come back to, but it is a good place for us to be there.<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball is about momentum. We started this season by winning all of our games at the end of the game, last-minute goals. Then we started to lose games, but I think we can change that. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe can switch to victories again. It is just [about] momentum. I believe we can improve and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forest will arrive on Merseyside this weekend in 19th place in the Premier League standings after 11 games.<\/p>\n
However, the appointment of Sean Dyche has produced an uptick in fortunes, with the side unbeaten in their last three outings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey changed the coach and now they have been good defensively,\u201d added Ekitike. \u201cThey have an especially good defence, so I feel like all of the games \u2013 every game \u2013 in the Premier League is going to be tough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will need to work and be ready for this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds are set to return to action following the international break by welcoming Nottingham Forest to Anfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304404,"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-304403","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\/304403","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=304403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}