Thierry Henry backs Hugo Ekitike to reach 'top of the mountain' once more at Liverpool
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SportFootballHugo EkitikeArsenal legend Thierry Henry opens up on Hugo Ekitike's damaging injury that ended his Liverpool season and ruined his World Cup dreamsArsenal legend Thierry Henry has backed Hugo Ekitike to reach "the top of the mountain" once more after a ruptured Achilles wrecked his Liverpool season and World Cup dream.Ekitike suffered the damaging setback in the 2-0 Champions League quarter-final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain last month, meaning the 17-goal top scorer at Anfield will now miss this summer's World Cup with France.Henry, who used to coach Ekitike for France's Under-21s team, says the Liverpool forward has the right mentality to return from such a difficult injury back to the levels shown previously.Henry told Betway: "I was watching the [PSG] game and straight away you knew it was bad. I felt sorry for him obviously, and as an ex player you think about the World Cup and everything else."More importantly, he was playing for Reims, then he went to PSG and everyone thought that he might lose his way because he wasn’t playing.
People thought he was never going to be that guy because he went there too early."What I loved was that he thought: 'OK, I’m not going to sit here and die on the bench with people thinking I’m done'. And he went to Germany [with Eintracht Frankfurt]] and battled.
He had an outstanding season."He comes to Liverpool where people thought he was going to sit for [Alexander] Isak, but no, he answered the call and did pretty well for his first season."It’s not only about the World Cup, it’s what he had to go through at a young age, to come back and reposition himself, and now he’s going to have to do it again."He came to the ‘top of the mountain’ and now he’s fallen again, for different reasons. It must be very difficult for him mentally, but he had the belief to do it once and I’m sure he can do it again."Liverpool return to action when they are hosted by Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!