After a yellow-red card
“Stupid in every sense”: coach Sauer on ex-Bundesliga star
24.09.2025 – 8:32 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
FC Liverpool prevailed on Tuesday evening in the league cup. But the final phase had to play the “Reds” tenth.
In the end, the result was the only positive thing at FC Liverpool on Tuesday evening against FC Southampton. The “Reds” won 2-1 against the Premier League relegated team, but had to accept a bitter setback. Central defender Giovanni Leoni, whom Liverpool had signed from Parma for 31 million euros in summer, was seriously injured. After 81 minutes he was brought off the pitch with a stretcher.
The next damper followed five minutes later. First striker Hugo Ekitiké scored the 2-1 winning goal, then he flew off the square. Because Ekitiké took off his jersey at the goal celebration, although he had previously seen the yellow card. In view of the rules, the referee had no choice but to show the yellow-red card to the former Frankfurt striker.
Coach Arne Slot reacted anything but amused after the game. “It was stupid in everyone,” he said at the Sky microphone. “The good thing was that his teammates were there for him and saved the victory.”
For slot it made no difference that Ekitiké had previously seen the yellow card. “I think it’s so stupid. Maybe I am old -fashioned, but I also scored a few goals, maybe not at this level, but I scored a few. If I had danced three players and shot the ball into the corner, then I might have celebrated,” he explained, adding: “But at a goal like his today I would have been to Federico Chiesa (tormenter, ed.) that all came about thanks to him. “
With this, Ekitiké has to watch the next game. Given the many games of Liverpools this season, a lock that coach Arne Slot would have liked to avoid.