{"id":206707,"date":"2025-12-23T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206707\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:23:08","slug":"slot-criticises-reckless-van-de-ven-challenge-on-isak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206707\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot criticises &#8216;reckless&#8217; Van de Ven challenge on Isak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has criticised Tottenham&#8217;s Micky van de Ven for the &#8220;reckless&#8221; tackle which has sidelined Reds striker Alexander Isak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1221\/1550037-slot-doesnt-have-any-news-on-extent-of-isak-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for a couple of months with a fractured ankle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sweden international was injured in scoring the opening goal of Saturday&#8217;s 2-1 win in north London when the Spurs defender slid in and caught his shooting leg as he planted it on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Isak had an operation on Monday on an ankle injury which also included a fibula fracture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a long injury, for a couple of months,&#8221; Slot said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a big disappointment for him and, as a result, for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was, for me, a reckless challenge. I&#8217;ve said a lot about the tackle of Xavi Simons (who was sent off dragging his studs down the calf of Virgil van Dijk) which for me was completely unintentional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you will ever get an injury out of a tackle like that. But the tackle of Van de Ven, if you make a tackle like that 10 times, 10 times there is a serious chance the player gets a serious injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has criticised Tottenham&#8217;s Micky van de Ven for the &#8220;reckless&#8221; tackle which has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-206707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}