Hugo Ekitike produced arguably his finest efficiency in a Liverpool shirt with a brace within the 4-1 win over Newcastle and Steven Gerrard in contrast him to a Liverpool legend.
The previous Champions League-winning midfielder shaped a lethal mixture with Fernando Torres at Anfield in his pomp and sees similarities between the Spaniard and Ekitike.
Talking on punditry responsibility for TNT on Saturday night time, Gerrard mentioned: ‘It is Torres-like. He simply will get it out of his ft and it is that toe poke. He jogs my memory of Torres, this participant, each time I watch him.
‘He is scoring comparable forms of objectives, the place should you give him house within the channel, he’ll run it, he is too fast, you’ll be able to’t catch him and he is lethal.’
Torres was referring to Ekitike’s second aim during which the defender Malick Thiaw gave him an excessive amount of respect on the surface.
The Frenchman pushed ahead earlier than slotting a toe-poke into the far nook previous Nick Pope with ruthless effectivity.
Hugo Ekitike scored twice in Liverpool’s 4-1 win over Newcastle on Saturday night time
Steven Gerrard says Ekitike reminds him of former team-mate Fernando Torres
His first of the night time was an instinctive end after intelligent motion that was picked out within the field by Florian Wirtz, with whom he’s creating a lethal mixture.
Ekitike spoke to the TNT pundits after the sport and when the Torres comparability was put to him, he supplied a humble response.
The 23-year-old mentioned: ‘Again within the day, I couldn’t watch the Premier League to be trustworthy, my mum did not pay so I could not see!
‘I’ve watched some clips of YouTube. I’ll by no means put myself on that bracket. He was an unimaginable participant.
‘If I attain his degree it might be nice. I’ve to maintain working.’
Gerrard chipped in once more saying: ‘There are lots of similarities, tempo, energy, you’ll be able to rating, you’ll be able to help.’
When requested if he had a goal variety of objectives for the season, he added: ‘It is a onerous query, clearly I need to rating lots of objectives, I might like to be the highest scorer of the membership however I do not consider a sure quantity, I simply need to be concerned in serving to the group to win. I additionally love to present assists, prefer to Flo (Wirtz).’
Ekitike has now scored 14 objectives in all competitions in a formidable debut season
‘We got here right here with confidence,’ he went on, however I believe tonight was additionally about group spirit. Everyone tonight was working in every single place.’
Torres is one among Liverpool’s most interesting strikers and ended up with 65 objectives in 102 appearances for the membership earlier than his controversial exit to hitch Chelsea.
Ekitike is already on 14 objectives in all competitions for his new membership having signed from Eintracht Frankfurt in the summertime for £69million.
With Alexander Isak out for the long run with a damaged leg, the burden has fallen on the Frenchman and he’s displaying himself to be up for the duty.
