Liverpool manager Arne Slot has spoken about the possibility of Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak playing together as a front two, Afrosport reports.
The French and Swedish players of Cameroonian and Eritrean heritage joined the Reds this summer for a combined £194 million from Eintracht Frankfurt and Newcastle United respectively.
Ekitike already has six games under his belt with three goals while Isak, who was a deadline day signing, only made his debut in the 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid in UEFA Champions League on Wednesday.
Questions have been asked on how best the two players can he utilised together on the pitch, and Slot, speaking ahead of Saturday’s Merseyside derby with Everton, said playing both of them will depend on fitness and the type of formation.
“I consider many things and it depends always on how well they are doing,” the Dutch tactician stated.
“If both of them are in the best form of their life then you consider more to play them together but it is quite clear that we have a certain structure of 4-3-3 but the amount of times the end phase where we have ended the game with two nines has happened a lot as well.
“Hugo can play from the left, different from the way Cody [Gakpo] and Rio [Ngumoha] do this and that’s the good thing about our squad.
“We have multiple options but first of all they all have to stay fit to have these options. If all of them are not fit then we may have to use them both in a 4-4-2 but that all depends on the form of them and how many players we have available.”
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