{"id":373964,"date":"2025-08-26T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373964\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:43:11","slug":"the-two-alexander-isak-chants-heard-during-newcastle-united-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373964\/","title":{"rendered":"The two Alexander Isak chants heard during Newcastle United vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Liverpool edged a dramatic game against Newcastle United in another Premier League classic on Monday night as the Alexander Isak saga continues to play out. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/match\/newcastle-united-player-ratings-vs-liverpool-as-8-10-star-makes-up-for-anthony-gordons-stupidity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-2<\/a> on Monday, with teenager Rio Ngumoha scoring a late winner on his Premier League debut. <\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gravenberch had given Liverpool the lead against the run of play, before Anthony Gordon was sent off. Hugo Ekitike doubled Liverpool\u2019s lead before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle<\/a> began fighting back. <\/p>\n<p>Bruno Guimaraes got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/tag\/eddie-howe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie Howe<\/a>\u2019s side back into the game with a header before William Osula bagged what had looked like an equaliser. Still, the 16-year-old Ngumoha settled the game with a late strike. <\/p>\n<p>It was a brilliant game and it\u2019s worth remembering a ten-man Newcastle pushed the English champions all the way even without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/tag\/alexander-isak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isak<\/a> in the side. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/transfers\/fabrizio-romano-reveals-alexander-isaks-surprising-thoughts-on-newcastle-united-amid-liverpool-saga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isak wants to join Liverpool<\/a>, and their fans were keen to remind Newcastle supporters of that. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2225131564-1-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Isak looks on during Newcastle United's pre-season training camp in Austria.\" class=\"wp-image-153571\" \/>Photo by Serena Taylor\/Newcastle United via Getty ImagesLiverpool fans mock Newcastle over Alexander Isak  <\/p>\n<p>Reds supporters could be heard chanting about Isak from the away section up in the gods at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/club\/stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St James\u2019 Park<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>One of those, as per Mark Douglas of iNews, was \u201cHand him over, hand him over Newcastle.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liverpool fans chanting &#8216;Hand him over, hand him over Newcastle&#8217; about Isak\u2026. An evening that began with so much promise turning into a very tough one for the hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#nufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#lfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Douglas (@MsiDouglas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsiDouglas\/status\/1960073095521182141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>There was another less savoury chant heard on Sky\u2019s TV coverage, too. <\/p>\n<p>Newcastle fans repeated the \u201cgreedy\u201d chant they aimed at Isak after last week\u2019s draw with Aston Villa. Still, surely not many onlookers would suggest Toon fans are not within their rights to vent their frustration. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander Isak will be told to play for Newcastle United again  <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/newcastle-united-pif-green-light-32343751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Chronicle<\/a>, Newcastle are set to ask Isak to prepare for the Leeds game next week. <\/p>\n<p>The situation is made all the more pressing following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/match\/gordon-red-card-newcastle-united-vs-liverpool-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon\u2019s red card against Liverpool<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Howe is now without his only real back-up option for Isak, although perhaps Osula\u2019s goal puts him in contention. <\/p>\n<p>Newcastle are a better team with Isak involved. They proved on Monday, however, that they are not a terrible one without him. <\/p>\n<p>There was so much drama against Liverpool that it\u2019s remarkable that Isak remains the biggest story.  <\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool edged a dramatic game against Newcastle United in another Premier League classic on Monday night as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[9261,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-373964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115093006350890857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}