{"id":330845,"date":"2025-12-23T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330845\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:29:09","slug":"alexander-isak-undergoes-surgery-as-liverpool-confirm-striker-has-suffered-broken-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330845\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak undergoes surgery as Liverpool confirm striker has suffered broken leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have confirmed Alexander Isak has suffered a fibula fracture with the player undergoing successful surgery.<\/p>\n

The Swedish striker went down injured immediately after scoring the opening goal during their 2-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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Isak was injured when scoring the opener for Liverpool following this tackle from Micky van de VenCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Spurs defender Micky van de Ven caught Isak<\/a> just after the Liverpool<\/a> forward struck the ball into the back of the net.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old stayed down and was given treatment on his left leg on the pitch, but was unable to continue for the rest of the match.<\/p>\n

And he now faces a spell on the sidelines having went under the knife.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have failed to give a timeframe on when the player will be back in action.<\/p>\n

READ MORE ON LIVERPOOLIsak blow<\/p>\n

A club statement<\/a> on Monday night read: “Alexander Isak today successfully underwent surgery on the injury he sustained on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“The Liverpool striker was injured in a challenge in the process of scoring the opening goal against Tottenham Hotspur and had to be substituted.<\/p>\n

“After diagnosis, an operation was completed today on an ankle injury that included a fibula fracture.<\/p>\n

“Isak’s rehabilitation will now continue at the AXA Training Centre, with no timeframe yet placed on his return.”<\/p>\n

Isak started from the bench in their victory away at Spurs.<\/p>\n

And it didn’t take him long to get on the score sheet after replacing Conor Bradley at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n

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Isak faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines with his injuryCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

He smashed into the bottom left corner after being picked out by Florian Wirtz in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n

It was his third goal in 16 appearances this season following his British record \u00a3125million move from Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Reds resurgence<\/p>\n

Victory at Spurs saw Liverpool extend their unbeaten run to six in all competitions.<\/p>\n

It was their third consecutive win and marks continued improvement from their dismal form earlier in the campaign.<\/p>\n

Isak also scored for the second time in five Premier League matches.<\/p>\n

But further contributions will have to wait as his Liverpool struggles took another hit.<\/p>\n

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Slot has a selection headache with three of his forwards out of actionCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

A lack of match fitness at the beginning of the season meant he had to wait until September 17 to make his debut.<\/p>\n

Isak later missed four further matches through abductor pain.<\/p>\n

Liverpool are now dealing with a lack of options in attack following their weekend win.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah has joined Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations and will be unavailable until late January<\/a> should they reach the final.<\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT<\/p>\n

Cody Gakpo also missed the victory over Spurs through a muscle injury.<\/p>\n

Liverpool welcome Premier League strugglers Wolves at Anfield on December 27 in their next match before entertaining Leeds United on New Year’s Day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have confirmed Alexander Isak has suffered a fibula fracture with the player undergoing successful surgery. The Swedish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1953,129003,129004,49,41256,129005,708,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-330845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-alexander-isak-injury","10":"tag-alexander-isak-surgery","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-isak-leg-break","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}