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Ekitike on Liverpool competition for places and Slot on Galatasaray Champions League test
29/09/2025
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29/09/2025
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00:00Track 1, encoded audio left front.
00:16Start us off.
00:22Go for it, go for it.
00:24Hugo, good to see you.
00:25Eight games into your Liverpool career.
00:27Five goals, one assist.
00:28How do you feel you're settling in,
00:30and what more is there still to come from?
00:33I think I settled well.
00:35Obviously, I had a good adaptation.
00:39The boys, the staff, everybody in the club
00:42had so much to adapt to this new environment.
00:47So, yeah, I would say everything goes well,
00:51and you know how football is.
00:53You need to keep going and stay consistent.
00:56When you arrived as well, Alexander Isak wasn't here.
00:59He has arrived now.
01:00How has that impacted you?
01:02How do you view the competition that you have for places?
01:05And if you were to play in the same team together,
01:07how do you think is the best way it would work?
01:10Good question.
01:13I think, you know, it's good, you know, we play in such a big club.
01:17I can't see one big club playing just with only one striker.
01:23So, I think it's good that he's here.
01:26You know, even for me, you know, at my age,
01:28I think I have still a lot of things to improve and learn.
01:32So, for me, it's good that he's here.
01:34And, yeah, you know, that's the coach to decide how he wants to play.
01:40That's not me, but obviously, you know, he's great players.
01:44I've been playing with two striker composition, one striker.
01:49So, I can do a lot of things.
01:52And if we have to play together, I can do that.
01:57If there's been one downside to your time at Liverpool so far,
02:00I'm guessing it's probably the second yellow card against Southampton.
02:04How do you look back on that incident now,
02:06particularly as it made sure that you missed the game
02:09against Crystal Palace at the weekend?
02:11I think that wasn't smart.
02:14Obviously, you know, I punished myself alone, I would say.
02:19So, I felt a bit disappointed to watch the boys from home
02:26the last Saturday.
02:29But, as I said, I apologize to everybody already, to all my teammates.
02:36That kind of thing won't happen again.
02:39And, yeah, I just move on now.
02:42I'm just looking forward to playing.
02:45I just focus on football.
02:56What is the most important role of Arnes Loth?
03:01I'm going to ask that question.
03:03Because we've always looked at the players in Liverpool.
03:09What is the most important role of the coach here?
03:15I'm going to ask that question.
03:21Honestly, the coach didn't talk a lot about my way to play
03:30or where I need to play.
03:33He gave me a lot of freedom in terms of being able to link up with the boys
03:40or go behind.
03:42I can do a lot of things.
03:44He just wanted me to bring my football in the team.
03:47So, yeah, he didn't say much about that.
03:50Hi, Hugo.
03:55Hi.
03:56There were quite a few clubs interested in you this summer.
03:58Newcastle, Man United.
04:00What was it that made you pick Liverpool?
04:02It's just the best choice.
04:06You know, it's the champion of England.
04:09For me, they had great players, great history.
04:15It just fit with what I was looking for after Frankfurt.
04:19So, yeah, I think it was the good choice for me.
04:23Yeah, that's why I chose Liverpool.
04:27It's just the best option and I wanted to come.
04:31I was thinking, okay.
04:32How are you doing?
04:33You already picked up the puck.
04:34No.
04:35You're getting stuck.
04:36Well, first of all, it's beautiful from Turkey.
04:38Be a good choice, Furkan Uzum.
04:39You mentioned the league from last season,
04:41It's already a four- RUSS,
04:43from the Premier League,
04:45in the Premier League.
04:46It's almost 50%.
04:47What makes it possible to make the knack at the pick and pass?
04:50What's the reason for theaster and pass?
04:52Are you doing your defense Test?
04:54Or is you doing another strategy?
04:55I'm working on the main team.
04:56What's the focus?
04:57I think last season, in the first part, obviously I was starting a lot in Frankfurt
05:12XI, almost all the games, and I see that I didn't shoot many times during games because
05:21I was just being more a playmaker, I would say, and I think I needed to be more dangerous.
05:30That's what I'm trying, I'm still trying to be, you know, to be even more dangerous than
05:36I am right now, you know, to always bring danger in defence, and I think that's why
05:44I shoot most.
05:45I don't really have particular technique, you know, or something to say about that, but
05:50yeah, I just try to be dangerous.
05:57Compared to last season, Liverpool gave too much space to opponents, for instance, we
06:10saw in Crystal Palace match, do you think it will be a problem against Galatasaray?
06:19Every game is different, you know, Premier League, Champions League games, different.
06:26I think tomorrow is going to be a tough game, playing here in Galatasaray.
06:32away from Liverpool, it's difficult, but I can't really say much about that, you know.
06:41It's the start of the season, obviously, we have to still find connection and to adapt to
06:48each other.
06:49So, I think in time it will be better, but I'm confident.
06:56Can you just talk to us about your start?
06:58I think it's five goals in ten games, so did you expect it to go as well as it had?
07:03And just in terms of you playing Champions League, I know you've played Champions League
07:07with PSG before, but how do you feel about doing it at the level for the whole season?
07:12This is your time, I suppose, what you want to achieve?
07:17To say I knew I would perform like that, no, but that's what I expected.
07:25I work for that, so obviously I'm happy that it works and I just want to keep going and do
07:33even more for this team.
07:39Sorry, what's the second question?
07:42Playing in the Champions League, I know you've played for PSG before, but as a starter,
07:47you want to play every game now, and how do you feel about performing at this level?
07:51Obviously, when I played first Champions League with PSG, I was young, I was on the bench,
07:57I was more watching, so I would say now is my time.
08:02Being someone who counts in this team, you know, to help the team to reach success in
08:09the Champions League, and I'm very grateful for that, and I'll give 100% of myself.
08:16Just the last one there, thanks.
08:19Hi, Hugo.
08:21You mentioned PSG, and I was wondering, because you've started so well at Liverpool,
08:27I was wondering if the experience of stepping into that environment at PSG,
08:31because obviously you had Neymar and Mbappe and Messi, that was the step up.
08:35Did that sort of prepare you for this step up now at Liverpool?
08:38For sure. In a certain way, you know, they gave me lessons in PSG.
08:45I was playing with the best players, maybe one of the best players in history,
08:52so obviously it was a lesson for me, and obviously being here today with Liverpool playing,
08:59and for me it's a great thing, and I just want to show that I learned a lot from this time,
09:09and that now I'm able to make a difference for my team, for my club.
09:15Thanks, guys. Cheers. Thank you.
09:45Guys, if you could raise your hand if you'd like to ask a question.
09:57Oh, Vinny's here. Vinny.
10:00Obviously Federico hasn't travelled, he has been added to the Champions League squad though,
10:06so what's the situation with him?
10:08Yeah, he got a little niggle, I think is the word you use here in England,
10:13in the last game against Palace, so he tried it today.
10:18He was on the pitch in the beginning, but he couldn't end the session,
10:21so we decided not to take him, because in a few days it's Chelsea again.
10:26The obvious answer is a win, but also in terms of the performance as well,
10:31what's the key element that you're really looking for
10:33in terms of a reaction to the disappointment of Saturday?
10:36I think we always have to do, no matter if we win, lose or draw,
10:41what is asked from you if you want to compete for trophies,
10:45but let alone if you wear the Liverpool shirt, and that is giving everything you have,
10:50and combine that with the best football you can play,
10:53and I think especially in the second half, not especially,
10:58we created during the course of the game against Palace more chances
11:01than we've created in all the three games we've played before against Palace,
11:06but we conceded also much more chances than we did before when we played Palace,
11:11so we can definitely improve on a few things,
11:14and the things we can improve I will show tonight.
11:19Not to you, by the way, but to the players.
11:24Ok, thank you, you guys.
11:28You're welcome.
11:29You are welcome.
11:31Hoca, perhaps in the world of football, a record for a record.
11:35That is that 2021 year of the year, Feyenoord and Liverpool have 170 points to win.
11:40They have 143 points to win.
11:41There are only 8 points to win.
11:43In total, they have 170 points to win.
11:45They have 4 points to win.
11:47This is the end of the year of the year of Feyenoord and Liverpool.
11:52One of the year transfer of Liverpool is very important to win.
11:56Hücum andamında, Eketike ve İshak gibi.
11:58Galatasaray'ın bir super yıldızı var, Osman.
12:00Osman Galatasaray'ın transfer, Liverpool'ın transfer gündemine gelmiş miydi?
12:05Antennatifler arasında mıydı?
12:07Değilse, neden gündeme gelmedi?
12:08Teşekkür ederim.
12:30Sattır, bir nez.
12:31Teşekkürler.
12:32The reason is always quite simple.
12:33I am really fortunate to manage two very good clubs, two very good teams
12:37that are always playing on the top end of the table.
12:40So, yeah, the players always make the difference, I don't know who asked,
12:44but that helps, of course, by winning so many games if you go 1-0 up.
12:49Yes, we've added two No. 9s, how should I say this in the right way in English?
12:59Unfortunately, it's not the word I should use,
13:03but because of an enormous tragedy that happened with Djokovic Jota,
13:06in the end we had to bring in two No. 9s,
13:11we always thought we were going to replace Darwin Nunez with one No. 9,
13:16but in the end we had to replace, not replace is not a good word,
13:20so I'm sorry if I don't use the right words, but we had to bring in two No. 9s
13:28and we're always looking for very good players,
13:34but it was always clear to us that from the start we wanted to bring in these two if we needed to.
13:43On the front end.
13:45Yes, here.
13:48TRT Sports erdarki illici topa sahip olan topa sahip olan bir Liverpool izliyoruz genel olarak.
13:55Ama Liverpool setlerinin özellikle Bradley'nin backstopper arasına yaptığı koşullar,
14:00Hranberg'in oraya doÄŸru kanalize olduÄŸu,
14:03ama bunların set sayılarını çok fazla göremediğimiz bir Liverpool izliyoruz,
14:07özellikle bu sezon.
14:09Glasser gibi hocaların Liverpool'un defolarını ortaya çıkarttığını düşünüyor mu?
14:13Bu ileride Liverpool'a bir sorun olarak geri dönebilir mi?
14:17İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
14:27Now we don't play football to have possession,
14:30we play football to create chances and to score goals.
14:33And in most games we've played, since I'm here and I think that's the situation,
14:38as long as Liverpool exist they have more ball possession than the other team.
14:41And sometimes the other team doesn't bother,
14:45they are completely fine with the fact that we have more ball possession than them
14:49because they just defend really strong.
14:51And in modern football it's more and more complicated
14:55because all teams manage so well, are so fit,
14:59it's getting harder and harder to play through.
15:02And that's why we decided also to bring in good attackers,
15:09good players that can play in the front four,
15:12that can help us unlocking those low blocks.
15:16But that's never easy, not for us, not for any team in the world.
15:20In the world.
15:22Here.
15:23Here.
15:24Here.
15:25Here.
15:26Rezan YetiÅŸ, Ekol Sports.
15:28Galatasaray'ın Frankfurt yenilgisi öncesi,
15:305 gol yediği son maç, Beşiktaş'a karşıydı.
15:33Ve o karşılaşmada,
15:35hocanın yardımcıhan trenörlerinden Van Bronkhorst,
15:37Beşiktaş'ın hocasıydı, Beşiktaş'ın teknik direktörüydü.
15:40Şunu merak ediyorum, yarınki maç öncesinde,
15:42Van Bronkhorst'la birlikte bir analiz gerçekleştirdi mi?
15:45Veyahut Van Bronkhorst bu karşılaşma ile ilgili
15:47kendisine bir takım bilgiler verdiğime teşekkürler.
16:17Buraklı bu knowledge about Turkish football.
16:19He knows these players,
16:20some of them,
16:21that we're going to face tomorrow
16:22maybe better
16:23than the rest of the staff does
16:25because we've not worked in this league,
16:27we've not played against them.
16:29But in modern football there are so many videos,
16:31you can watch so many games,
16:32that every manager,
16:33even if you haven't worked here,
16:35know a lot about the other team.
16:36So yes,
16:37we've used Gio,
16:39as we've used the other assistant coaches as well,
16:41and that was a very special evening for him, they won the Super Cup, if I'm correct, in that evening.
16:48So special, he's known for winning a lot of trophies, Gio, in Holland and he did this here as well.
16:55What was your other question? Oh yeah, their loss against Frankfurt, I've watched that game,
17:01and for me they were very, very, very unlucky in that game.
17:06The chances they gave away were only small and it was either the quality of Frankfurt
17:14or a little bit of bad luck for Galatasaray that they conceded five,
17:18because if they play the same game again they will never, ever, ever concede five goals again in that same game,
17:25because they played much better than the 5-1 showed.
17:30And that's also what you see now in the beginning of the season here in Turkey,
17:34seven wins, only conceded two if I'm correct, scored a lot of goals,
17:39so a very, very good team with a very good manager that's been so successful over here as a player and as a manager.
17:46So they know what it takes to win the league and they know what it takes to win a game of football,
17:50so we have to be prepared for that.
17:53I know you've changed your full-backs from last season, but at the start of last season you kept six clean sheets in your first ten games,
18:04so far you've kept two clean sheets in your first nine games, how would you analyse your defence this season?
18:11No, I almost like that you asked me this question, because for me defending is only a small margin, defenders.
18:20So I think one of our strengths was that we kept the other team away from our goal a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot.
18:27And that normally doesn't start with your defenders, that starts somewhere else.
18:31And if you then just look in it more detailed, we've conceded four goals from set pieces.
18:40So, yeah, we've changed our full-backs, but we've changed a bit more than only our full-backs.
18:49And the goals we've conceded, I should look back at it in detail,
18:55but the first thing that comes to my mind is not that the full-backs are our problem.
19:01It's always been a team performance last season, I've said this many times,
19:07the reason why we hardly conceded is that 11 players won't win.
19:10They work incredibly hard to make it difficult for the other team to even create a chance.
19:15And that's what we've done this season many times as well,
19:18but you can work as hard as you want, but a set-piece is almost a different game inside the game.
19:24And that was, by the way, that would have been maybe even a better question,
19:30that was one of our main strengths last season that we hardly conceded from set-pieces.
19:35So we have to go back to that, we haven't changed our set-up, we haven't changed anything.
19:39So we have to prove in the upcoming weeks and months that we were maybe a bit unlucky in conceding some set-pieces.
19:46Because that can happen in five or six games, it's difficult to see it for the long term.
19:51But it's something we definitely have to improve because I also see teams in the Premier League that win games by set-pieces.
20:00And we lose games because of set-pieces.
20:07James?
20:08Just in terms of how intimidating the atmosphere is going to be here tomorrow night,
20:11what does your team need to do differently to avoid gifting Galatasaray the initiative in the same way as Palace were allowed to be on the front foot so early on on Saturday?
20:19Yeah, that depends on what you mean with the initiative, because for me Palace didn't have the initiative if you talk about ball possession.
20:26Because even the first eight minutes were perfectly fine for me, till we've conceded a corner.
20:33You can debate, by the way, if it was a corner, yes or no. So you have to answer to the fact why I got a yellow.
20:40And then we conceded a corner and then we've conceded too much chances, but it wasn't because they had the initiative,
20:50it was because they counter-attacked us a few times really well and we lost the ball in positions where we shouldn't have lost it.
20:58So we have to do much better than this, I'm not sitting here telling you we played a good first half,
21:02I'm not telling you that having initiative in a game is something that is worth a lot, no.
21:06If you have initiative, it should lead to chances and it should definitely not lead to conceding chances.
21:11But it wasn't that they were all over us, they counter-attacked us a few times really well and we didn't do as well as we had to do.
21:22And they played a few times the ball into our last line where they won the second ball and that is something we need to improve.
21:31But Kalatasaray is a completely different team to Palace, but also a team that's very hard to beat, similar to Palace.
21:4018 games without a lost Palace, this team have won the first seven games in the league,
21:45so that means that they are mentally also strong for difficult moments, if you win a lot then you're also mostly mentally a bit stronger.
21:52So a very difficult team to face, both with a lot of qualities, but you cannot compare these teams,
22:00one is playing 5-4-1, the other one is playing 4-3-3, so different players, different manager, different formation.
22:08Last question here please.
22:11You are going to talk about the first time of the game.
22:13Thank you for your time.
22:14Thank you for your time for your time.
22:15Thank you for your time.
22:17Thank you for your time.
22:18Thank you very much.
22:48No, I think you already gave the answer.
22:57We've shown that we are a team that can defend set-pieces really well.
23:01But more and more in football, you see it becomes more and more a set-piece game.
23:07And I know that set-pieces are a part of football,
23:10but I watched the Brentford Man United on the way up to Palace,
23:16and I saw, I think, 25 minutes of that game, and I think it was 20 minutes.
23:20Long throw-in, set-piece, long throw-in, set-piece, corner-kick, goal-kick.
23:25A goal-kick is not a set-piece, by the way.
23:27So this is the style of football you see more and more, in my opinion,
23:32mainly in the Premier League, and there's a reason for me
23:35why it's even more done in the Premier League than in other leagues,
23:38because in the Premier League you can do much more.
23:40You can attack a goalkeeper, for example.
23:43You can even touch him and then it's not even a foul.
23:46This is something everybody likes about the Premier League,
23:49but in Europe this is definitely a bit different.
23:52But we knew that Galatasaray is also strong in set-pieces,
23:56but I can tell you that we've been a force in set-pieces last season.
24:01We won our last Champions League game because of a set-piece.
24:04We scored a 3-2 with Virgil.
24:06We were very, very, very close of scoring one against Palace.
24:10So yeah, every team you face at the moment, you have to be so, so, so well prepared
24:15when it comes to set-pieces.
24:17So back in the days when I was still playing, we only talked about football,
24:21and there was not even a set-piece goal, let alone there was a set-piece meeting.
24:25Nowadays set-piece meetings take just as long as the tactical meeting
24:30or the preparation for the game football-wise.
24:33So that tells you the importance of we give to set-pieces,
24:37and I think every team around Europe gives to set-pieces.
24:40Thank you very much, guys.
24:42Oh, sorry.
24:44You're welcome.
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