Hugo Ekitike welcomes starting next to Alexander Isak – but ‘not up to me!’

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“I think it’s good with players in such a big club,” Ekitike said. “I can’t see one big club playing with only one striker, so I think it’s good that he’s here.

“Even for me at my age, I think I still have a lot of things to improve and learn, so for me it’s good that he’s here. “But obviously it’s great players, I’ve been playing in two-striker composition, one-striker… so I can do a lot of things.

If we have to play together, I can do that.” Ekitike certainly appears to be loving life at Liverpool, who he joined despite interest from the likes of Manchester United and Newcastle. “I think that wasn’t smart,” Ekitike said.