{"id":585023,"date":"2026-04-04T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585023\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:06:08","slug":"arne-slot-explains-alexander-isak-absence-for-man-city-v-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585023\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot explains Alexander Isak absence for Man City v Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isak resumed team training on Thursday after a three-and-a-half-month injury lay-off and Slot said on Friday that his No.9 may be able to be on the Reds\u2019 bench against Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>However, the striker is not available at Etihad Stadium and Slot is now hopeful of Isak being back for Wednesday\u2019s Champions League last-eight first leg at Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach told TNT Sports: \u201cI was hoping the same [that Isak would be among the substitutes on Saturday], but you always do these things in co-operation with medical staff, performance staff and the player himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came to the conclusion that it was better for him to have a few more sessions than only one or two and then immediately jump into a game like this, where if you bring him in there might be extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is now that I hope \u2013 again I hope \u2013 that he will be available for Wednesday, but today came too early for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isak resumed team training on Thursday after a three-and-a-half-month injury lay-off and Slot said on Friday that his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[13514,64,63,13515,596,13503,13510,13505,13516,13518,13517,7886,13509,13508,13504,13513,13506,13511,85,13507,13512],"class_list":{"0":"post-585023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-reds","25":"tag-salah","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-van-dijk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585023","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=585023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}