Hugo Ekitike one-ups Alexander Isak and Mohamed Salah after stunning blitz vs. Leeds

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Hugo Ekitike became the first Liverpool player this season to score a brace in any competition, as he scored twice in quick succession against Leeds. Perhaps surprisingly — given Liverpool has the likes of Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak in its ranks — Ekitike's brace is the first scored by a Liverpool player since March 2025, when Salah scored two penalties in a win over Southampton.

The last player to score a brace for Liverpool, with both of their goals coming from open play, was Cody Gakpo, all the way back in January of this year. There were a couple of other interesting statistics to emerge off the back of Ekitike's brace against Leeds.

One of them was that Ekitike is the first player to score two goals in the first five minutes of the second half of a Premier League game since Raheem Sterling in 2019, while he is also the first French player to score a brace for Liverpool since Djibril Cisse in 2006. Ekitike's quick brace put the Reds in control, but goals from Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Anton Stach pulled the scores back level to 2-2.