{"id":228485,"date":"2025-09-15T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228485\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:29:10","slug":"alexander-isak-will-play-45-minutes-or-more-next-week-arne-slot-explains-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228485\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak will play 45 minutes or more next week – Arne Slot explains – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot<\/a> admits British record signing Alexander Isak<\/a> is in no state to feature significantly as their schedule ramps up with the start of the Champions League<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

The \u00a3125 million striker was left out of the squad for Sunday\u2019s last-gasp 1-0 victory at Burnley<\/a>, having played only 18 minutes of football for Sweden and having missed pre-season and game time due to his dispute with Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isak spent Saturday having a hard training session and was involved in recovery while his new team-mates were at Turf Moor labouring to a fourth successive win, Mohamed Salah<\/a>\u2018s penalty in the fifth minute of added time extending the Reds\u2019 100 percent record and restoring their three-point lead at the Premier League<\/a> summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you start a season when the players have been off for five weeks, you give them a certain base before they are able to play 45 minutes,\u201d said Slot, whose side face Atletico Madrid at Anfield on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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

\u201cWe try to prepare players at the beginning of the season to play once a week and then we try to do more before the rhythm of three games a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlex is far from ready for that schedule of three games in a week but we could use him today for five minutes and Wednesday 10 and then 15, but we don\u2019t believe that is the way to build him up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Sweden they did the right thing by giving him good sessions without playing him a lot and we did the same so now he will be able to play 45 on Wednesday as a minimum or a little bit more.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if he plays 45 on Wednesday, don\u2019t expect him to play 45 or more on Saturday [against Everton<\/a>] as his body is not prepared for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BURNLEY,<\/p>\n

Slot admits his side got lucky after being frustrated by the Clarets\u2019 organised defence and it was a relief to snatch three points after being rewarded for throwing on more attackers to chase victory after the late sending-off of Burnley<\/a>\u2018s Lesley Ugochukwu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey almost got a point so I\u2019m not saying anything negative about it but it is difficult to outplay 11 players in their own 18-yard box and a draw was probably expected throughout the game,\u201d Slot said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we tried with the substitutions we made to bring all the players we have who can attack on the pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we were six or seven in the end and I don\u2019t know if that has anything to do with us scoring but we created the penalty and had a big chance with Jeremie before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BURNLEY,<\/p>\n

Despite the defeat Burnley<\/a> boss Scott Parker was proud of his players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really tough and I\u2019m gutted for the players. We took the game to the 95th minute today and a penalty has decided it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to survive at times and had to dig and go to places not many human beings sometimes go to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey survived their moments, they worked tirelessly for the cause and resorted back to a default position which was \u2018let\u2019s do what we can\u2019 and I\u2019m very proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool head coach Arne Slot admits British record signing Alexander Isak is in no state to feature significantly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1836,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-228485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-liverpool-fc","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115207848917198027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}