{"id":417414,"date":"2026-04-25T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:16:15","slug":"alexander-isak-will-liverpool-strikers-goal-against-crystal-palace-be-a-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417414\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak: Will Liverpool striker’s goal against Crystal Palace be a turning point?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the corresponding weekend last season, Isak scored for Newcastle United<\/a> in a win that relegated Ipswich Town.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was his 26th goal of a successful season that would help propel Eddie Howe’s side into the Champions League.<\/p>\n

He ended the campaign with 27, and a little over three months later joined Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I want to create history,” said Isak, after an acrimonious move before which he had trained away from Newcastle<\/a>‘s first-team squad.<\/p>\n

“I want to win trophies. This is the perfect place for me to grow even further and take my game to the next level.”<\/p>\n

Yet that dream move has turned into something of a nightmare for both player and club.<\/p>\n

Isak suffered a serious ankle injury in December<\/a> that included a fractured fibula.<\/p>\n

Prior to that he had been starting in place of Hugo Ekitike, who many fans thought deserved to be selected. There were suggestions Liverpool<\/a> were struggling to fit Isak into their system.<\/p>\n

Four months later, he is still a shadow of the player he was last season and has still to complete a full 90 minutes in a Liverpool<\/a> shirt.<\/p>\n

Against Palace he had 18 touches and registered one attempt, from which he scored, before being replaced by Ryan Gravenberch in the 79th minute.<\/p>\n

He has now played 1,009 minutes for Liverpool<\/a> – well down on the 3,319 he managed for Newcastle<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n

But Martin Keown, a pundit on Saturday’s Match of the Day, believes there could be brighter days ahead for Isak.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a long time coming for someone who cost a British record transfer fee,” said three-time Premier League winner Keown.<\/p>\n

“But that feeling of celebrating with the home fans is something for him to build on. Isak showed us a little bit of what we thought we’d see from the start of the season.<\/p>\n

“If Liverpool<\/a> can get him fully fit and back to the form he showed at Newcastle<\/a>, then clearly he’s an outstanding player – and someone the club will still have big expectations for.<\/p>\n

“With Mohamed Salah leaving in the summer<\/a> and Hugo Ekitike likely to miss the rest of the calendar year,<\/a> the Reds are going to need him back to his best.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the corresponding weekend last season, Isak scored for Newcastle United in a win that relegated Ipswich Town.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-417414","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417414","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=417414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}