{"id":460659,"date":"2025-12-20T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460659\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:45:15","slug":"why-alexander-isak-is-substitute-vs-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460659\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Alexander Isak Is Substitute vs. Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slot makes just one change for Liverpool, with <a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/conor-bradley\" title=\"Conor Bradley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conor Bradley<\/a> returning from suspension to play instead of the injured <a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/joe-gomez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Gomez<\/a> at right-back.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, Isak isn\u2019t in the team despite being fit. This is simply down to Ekitike being ahead of him in the pecking order at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Sky Sports if Isak is going to have to be patient due to Ekitike\u2019s form, Slot replied: \u201cNo, they can play together as well. I\u2019ve done that already twice this season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I haven\u2019t done it more often is obvious I think, because of especially Alex but also Hugo not always [being] able to play two games in three or four days. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they are definitely a couple as well. Hugo can play off the left so they could play together, but for today I decided to play Hugo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/tottenham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tottenham<\/a> vs. Liverpool Team News<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>THFC XI:<\/strong> Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Spence; Gray, Bentancur, Bergvall; Kudus, Simons, Kolo Muani<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>THFC SUBS:<\/strong> Kinsky, Dragusin, Danso, Davies, Palhinha, Tel, Odobert, Johnson, Richarlison<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>LFC XI:<\/strong> <a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/alisson\/\" title=\"Alisson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alisson<\/a>; Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Wirtz; Ekitike<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>LFC SUBS:<\/strong> Mamardashvili, Lucky, Frimpong, Ramsay, Robertson, Nyoni, Chiesa, Ngumoha, Isak<\/p>\n<p>With the Ekitike in far superior form \u2013 the Frenchman has nine goals to Isak\u2019s two this season \u2013 this is the third successive <a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Premier League<\/a> match that Liverpool\u2019s record signing has started on the bench. <\/p>\n<p>Isak\u2019s absence from the starting XI does at least leave the Reds with a good striking option off the bench, while <a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/mohamed-salah\/\" title=\"Mo Salah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mo Salah<\/a> is away and <a data-ail=\"331911\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/cody-gakpo\/\" title=\"Cody Gakpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cody Gakpo<\/a> is injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slot makes just one change for Liverpool, with Conor Bradley returning from suspension to play instead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[3678,221,62,210305,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-460659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tottenham-vs-liverpool","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115753616840950166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460659","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=460659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}