{"id":917,"date":"2026-10-12T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=917"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:17:45","slug":"kerkez-makes-a-statement-with-liverpool-loss-and-see-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Kerkez makes  a statement with Liverpool loss and&#8230; See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Liverpool\u2019s first defeat of the season against Manchester City, Milo\u0161 Kerkez admitted the Reds must improve, despite injuries to key players and a controversial red card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result is the most important thing in football. This club needs to win games, so we need to do that,\u201d Kerkez said.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool left-back felt his team performed well before the sending-off changed the game, explaining that the match was evenly balanced at 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>He added that facing City with ten men was difficult, particularly because of their ability to dominate possession.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool will now look to bounce back against LASK on Wednesday, although they could still be without Cody Gakpo, Alexander Isak and Dominik Szoboszlai, who are recovering from injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Following Liverpool\u2019s first defeat of the season against Manchester City, Milo\u0161 Kerkez admitted the Reds must improve, despite injuries to key players and a controversial <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=917\" title=\"Kerkez makes  a statement with Liverpool loss and&#8230; See more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/E5IMVYRFK5L2ZIPRYXIRSGCJKI-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}