Liverpool’s chaotic 3-3 draw at Elland Road left Hugo Ekitike feeling more frustrated than relieved, even though he finally returned to the scoresheet. The result, which was reported by SoftFootball, adds to a strange run for the Reds, who also needed a late deflection to escape defeat against Sunderland recently.
For Ekitike, though, the Leeds game felt like one that slipped away far too easily. The French forward scored twice in barely two minutes right after the restart, giving Liverpool what looked like total control. He said in the reaction shared on the club’s official X account that the team felt confident at that point, but something changed after Leeds pulled one back.
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He said they had the game in their hands while sounding annoyed at himself and the group. He admitted confidence dropped too quickly once Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored. From there the momentum shifted, and he felt Liverpool struggled to match Leeds’ energy, especially with the noise inside Elland Road rising.
Ekitike spoke openly about what he and the team could have done differently. Instead of saying they needed to run more, he said they probably needed to run better and stay tighter as a unit. He repeated several times that sticking together is the only way to get through difficult moments.
He said, trying to keep perspective:
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but at the moment and even tomorrow if we start to win every game we play, you have to work as a team and be together. That’s what is going to make us do a great season.
On a personal level, the two goals meant a lot to him because he had been going through a dry spell. It bothered him that he had not been scoring or assisting much. He praised Conor Bradley for the effort that created his second goal, saying he only needed to trust the ball would come back to him.
Even with the brace, he finished by saying winning matters more than personal stats.
He said:
I’m glad that today I could score for the team. I just want more especially to win as that’s most important for me at the moment. Even if I don’t score, I want us to win.
For a striker trying to build form, that sounded honest enough.
