{"id":264294,"date":"2025-11-05T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:45:07","slug":"sweden-alexander-isak-named-in-graham-potters-first-squad-viktor-gyokeres-out-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264294\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden: Alexander Isak named in Graham Potter&#8217;s first squad, Viktor Gyokeres out injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres has not been named in Graham Potter&#8217;s first Sweden squad, but Liverpool&#8217;s Alexander Isak has been included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gyokeres is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckgkj724kk8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set to have further tests this week<\/a> amid fears he sustained a hamstring injury during the Gunners&#8217; Premier League win at Burnley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old missed Arsenal&#8217;s Champions League win against Slavia Prague on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isak, who has not played for the Reds since 22 October because of a groin problem, has been selected for the World Cup qualifiers against Switzerland (15 November) and Slovenia (18 November).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham midfielder Lucas Bergvall, who is recovering from concussion, and Newcastle winger Anthony Elanga are among the England-based players named by former Brighton, Chelsea and West Ham boss Potter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres has not been named in Graham Potter&#8217;s first Sweden squad, but Liverpool&#8217;s Alexander Isak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-264294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}