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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 on the half-hour mark. The striker, who has scored 17 goals since his arrival from Eintracht Frankfurt last summer, now looks set for a spell on the sidelines.
On Ekitike’s injury, Liverpool head coach Slot told Amazon Prime: “Not too good, I think we can all see that. Achilles? Let’s wait and see what it will be, we can all see it didn’t look good. In the second half,he went home so I haven’t seen him yet. Losing a game is already very hard… but again as it seems losing a player is something we’ve had so many times this season.”
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 via BBC Sport: "I think it is bad. I don't know, I have heard many things, I have no word to talk about that because with the World Cup coming it is very, very hard for him and I send him my prayers.
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