{"id":907544,"date":"2026-09-27T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907544\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:24:13","slug":"liverpool-alexander-isak-returns-to-liverpool-from-international-duty-with-a-minor-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907544\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Alexander Isak returns to Liverpool from international duty with a minor injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool striker Alexander Isak has returned to his club after picking up a minor injury while on international duty with Sweden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old will not be involved in Sweden&#8217;s remaining three matches in this international break and will be assessed by his club&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played the full 90 minutes and scored a goal in Sweden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/crgqdp3dngqqt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 win over Romania<\/a> in the Nations League on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s got a small problem with his thigh. It&#8217;s not a big one but because of the amount of games we&#8217;ve got in a small space of time, he won&#8217;t be able to make those,&#8221; Swedish coach Graham Potter told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not a big one, but frustrating for him, and obviously for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isak has started the season with four goals in five Premier League games for the Reds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His first season at Liverpool last year &#8211; after a \u00a3125m move from Newcastle &#8211; was hampered by injury and he was limited to 14 Premier League appearances, scoring three goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool striker Alexander Isak has returned to his club after picking up a minor injury while on international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-907544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907544","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=907544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}