{"id":150967,"date":"2025-09-17T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150967\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:36:08","slug":"liverpool-striker-alexander-isak-named-in-starting-lineup-for-ucl-tilt-against-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150967\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool striker Alexander Isak named in starting lineup for UCL tilt against Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LIVERPOOL, England (AP) \u2014 Alexander Isak was named in Liverpool\u2019s starting lineup for the Champions League game against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sweden striker was given the chance to make his debut after completing a British record $170 million deadline day move from Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Isak was left out of the squad for Sunday\u2019s 1-0 win over Burnley in the Premier League, but Liverpool coach Arne Slot had said he would be involved in the club\u2019s first European game of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Isak had a disrupted offseason in the face of his protracted move to Premier League champion Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His only game this term has been as a late substitute in Sweden\u2019s World Cup qualifier against Kosovo last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He became one of the most sought-after players in Europe last season after scoring 32 goals for club and country and helping Newcastle win the English League Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another summer signing, Hugo Ekitike was named as substitute for the match at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">James Robson is at https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesalanrobson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">James Robson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVERPOOL, England (AP) \u2014 Alexander Isak was named in Liverpool\u2019s starting lineup for the Champions League game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-150967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}