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Beth LindopFeb 24, 2026, 08:19 AM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.<\/p>\n Multiple Authors<\/p>\n Liverpool<\/a> forward Rio Ngumoha<\/a> has said he is hopeful of earning more Premier League<\/a> minutes after his impressive cameo against Nottingham Forest<\/a> at the weekend.<\/p>\n The teenager — who became Liverpool’s youngest ever goalscorer when he netted the winner against Newcastle United<\/a> earlier in the season — was introduced from the bench after 77 minutes at the City Ground and helped change the game for Liverpool, who clinched a 1-0 victory thanks to a late strike from Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I know I need to at least do something to try to impact the game, whether that’s on the ball or off the ball,” Ngumoha said.<\/p>\n “That can be putting in a tackle, pressing to win the ball back, putting balls in the box, having shots on target or just beating my man.<\/p>\n “I just think every single time I’m called on for the team, I want to show everyone what I can do really. Hopefully [more game-time] soon, just keep pushing and gaining the manager’s trust and hopefully that leads to more minutes.”<\/p>\n Ngumoha has played 89 minutes in the Premier League this season — comfortably the most by any player under the age of 18 in the division this term. However, with both Mohamed Salah<\/a> and Cody Gakpo<\/a> struggling for goals, there have been calls for the teenager to be handed more first-team opportunities by head coach Arne Slot.<\/p>\n “I feel like if you are not playing as much then you can stagnate, so I want to gain more minutes — whether that is under-18s or 21s — I am still so young, so I am available to play, so any games I can play, I will,” Ngumoha said.<\/p>\n – Liverpool love late drama. Can Slot fix their slow starts? “The manager is very important to me and he helps me a lot. We might have a meeting after training and he tells me how well I am doing, to keep going, showing me clips. All of that is important and helpful.<\/p>\n “I think it has gone really well. I am learning a lot every day playing and training with some of the best players in the world. I can’t ask for much more as a young kid. So I just think I need to carry on improving, working hard in training and showing what I can do to the manager.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth LindopFeb 24, 2026, 08:19 AM ET CloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-488116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488116","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=488116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rio Ngumoha is aiming for more Liverpool game time.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
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