{"id":424572,"date":"2025-09-14T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:51:23","slug":"isak-needs-time-to-get-fit-says-slot-after-leaving-striker-out-of-liverpool-win-at-burnley-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424572\/","title":{"rendered":"Isak needs time to get fit says Slot after leaving striker out of Liverpool win at Burnley | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot says Liverpool need to be patient with Alexander Isak after leaving him out of the 1-0 victory against Burnley<\/a>. The striker is not ready for the demands of playing regularly after missing pre-season and Slot is looking to build up his stamina slowly.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah settled the match in the 95th minute from the penalty spot after Hannibal Mejbri handballed inside the box on a day that Liverpool\u2019s talismanic forward misfired.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got him from Newcastle in a state where you could say his pre-season is going to start now,\u201d Slot said. \u201cHe needs proper minutes of training before he has a certain base, let alone for him to play twice in three days.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s what we do, we try to prepare players for the beginning of the season once a week, and then we try to do more and more and more before we go into the rhythm of two games a week, so that they are ready for that schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Liverpool defender Milos Kerkez was replaced before half-time after being booked for a dive inside the Burnley<\/a> box. \u201cThe only way we could lose this game, if we go down to 10, because with 11 v 11, we could have drawn it, but we couldn\u2019t have lost it because they\u2019ve never been over the halfway line, let alone in our own 18-yard box,\u201d Slot said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to take that risk, which was hard for Milos because normally you don\u2019t have to take a player off if he has a yellow before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Milos Kerkez was booked for diving in the first half and then substituted after only 38 minutes. Photograph: Lee Parker\/CameraSport\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Burnley endured the same fate last time out when an injury-time Jaidon Anthony foul allowed Manchester United to win 3-2 at Old Trafford<\/a>. The latest defeat leaves Burnley with three points from four games after throwing away two potential draws.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really heartbreaking the way the game finishes for us,\u201d manager Scott Parker said. \u201cTwo weeks in a row that it\u2019s in the dying minutes, two penalties that decide the games. And we don\u2019t manage to get the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty disappointing. I thought the players really produced a performance. It was everything we\u2019ve worked on. I\u2019m just gutted for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot says Liverpool need to be patient with Alexander Isak after leaving him out of the 1-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115204632289229027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424572","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=424572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}