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Hugo Ekitike injury update after Liverpool’s loss to PSG in the Champions League quarter-final second leg.
Arne Slot has provided an injury update on Hugo Ekitike after Liverpool exited the Champions League at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain.
A 2-0 loss in the second leg at Anfield meant that the Reds suffered a 4-0 aggregate defeat in the quarter-finals of the competition. While Liverpool displayed plenty of spirit in the clash, they could not capitalise and left the door open for European Cup holders PSG, who took advantage through Ousmane Dembele’s second-half double.
Liverpool’s task was made significantly harder in the first half when Ekitike sustained an innocuous injury and had to be stretchered off.
Ekitike’s injury means that his involvement in this summer’s World Cup for France is in serious doubt. Liverpool defender and fellow Frenchman Ibrahima Konate said: "I'm very sad for him. To be fair I think it is bad. I don't know. I send him my prayers and everything."
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