{"id":13480,"date":"2025-10-23T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:34:17","slug":"liverpool-5-1-eintracht-frankfurt-reds-end-slump-with-statement-ucl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/?p=13480","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool 5\u20131 Eintracht Frankfurt: Reds End Slump With Statement UCL Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liverpool ended a four-game winless streak in emphatic style by dismantling Eintracht Frankfurt 5\u20131 in Germany on Wednesday night. The Reds delivered one of their most convincing European performances this season, re-establishing themselves as serious contenders in their UCL group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frankfurt had grabbed the lead in the 26th minute through Rasmus\u202fKristensen, but Liverpool responded swiftly: Hugo\u202fEkitike equalised in the 35th minute and from there Liverpool took over. Scores from Virgil\u202fvan\u202fDijk and Ibrahima\u202fKonat\u00e9 either side of the interval gave the visitors control, while Cody\u202fGakpo and Dominik\u202fSzoboszlai sealed the rout in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statistical dominance was stark: Liverpool had 14 shots on target compared to just one for Frankfurt. Their pressing, tempo and defensive recovery were all at a high level, signalling huge improvement after a difficult run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he defeat raises serious questions about their European readiness and mental resilience especially given they had the early lead but surrendered control so comprehensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Takeaways<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Liverpool\u2019s attacking output and mental lift could change the momentum of their UCL campaign.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frankfurt\u2019s performance marks a step back in their ambitions this season and suggests deeper structural issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This result shifts the balance of their group and gives Liverpool renewed belief moving into the business end of the group stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool ended a four-game winless streak in emphatic style by dismantling Eintracht Frankfurt 5\u20131 in Germany on Wednesday night. The Reds delivered one of their most convincing European performances this season, re-establishing themselves as serious contenders in their UCL group. Frankfurt had grabbed the lead in the 26th minute through Rasmus\u202fKristensen, but Liverpool responded swiftly: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,266,231],"tags":[163,123,360,361,104,349,362],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-uefa","category-uefa-champions-league","tag-arne-slot","tag-champions-league","tag-eintracht-frankfurt","tag-hugo-ekitike-2","tag-liverpool","tag-ucl-group-stage","tag-virgil-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13482,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions\/13482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90minutesnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}