{"id":52756,"date":"2025-10-23T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/?p=52756"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:59:17","slug":"hugo-ekitike-shares-funny-reaction-to-virgil-van-dijks-immediate-response-after-his-goal-against-eintracht-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/?p=52756","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike shares funny reaction to Virgil van Dijk\u2019s immediate response after his goal against Eintracht Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Ekitike came back to punish his former club, Eintracht Frankfurt, as Liverpool cruised to a 5-1 victory in their recent UEFA Champions League encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The French forward netted the equaliser for the Reds, finishing off a rapid counter-attack in the first half. Out of respect for his former side, Ekitike chose not to celebrate the goal, though he later shared a light-hearted moment related to it.<\/p>\n<p>A photo showed Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk raising his arms in celebration immediately after Ekitike\u2019s strike\u2014a gesture that clearly amused the forward. Sharing the image on his Snapchat story, Ekitike captioned it, \u201cBig Virgil knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has now registered six goals in 12 appearances this season, continuing to outshine Alexander Isak in Arne Slot\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Ekitike came back to punish his former club, Eintracht Frankfurt, as Liverpool cruised to a 5-1 victory in their recent UEFA Champions League encounter. The French forward netted the equaliser for the Reds, finishing off a rapid counter-attack in the first half. Out of respect for his former side, Ekitike chose not to celebrate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f7474876-b1af-4781-ad04-40706f6e19d3.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52758,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52756\/revisions\/52758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}