It has been a long time coming but Alexander Isak might finally be living up to his price tag.<\/p>\n
The Sweden striker arrived at Anfield amid huge fanfare in August 2025 when he signed from Newcastle<\/a> for a British record \u00a3125m.<\/p>\n But a combination of a slow start and then suffering a broken leg in December meant his first season at the Reds became something of a nightmare – scoring just four goals in 22 games.<\/p>\n This season has been a different story. Isak’s goal against Brighton<\/a> on Sunday helped Liverpool<\/a> to an impressive 2-0 win against the Premier League’s in-form side, taking his tally to six for the campaign already.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old is averaging almost a goal per game and has scored more than half of Liverpool<\/a>‘s Premier League goals this season.<\/p>\n Like last weekend at Brentford<\/a>, Isak didn’t necessarily set the game alight, but again it was another crucial goal from the Swede. His strike gave Liverpool<\/a> breathing space against a Brighton<\/a> team that had 64% possession and actually ended the game with a higher xG than Andoni Iraola’s side.<\/p>\n In the end, Liverpool<\/a> saw the game out and this was arguably their finest display in the league under Iraola, who secured his first league win at Anfield at the fourth time of asking<\/a>.<\/p>\n Only Erling Haaland (nine) has scored more Premier League goals this season than Isak and when Liverpool<\/a> signed him from Newcastle<\/a> these were the numbers they expected.<\/p>\n During Isak’s struggles in an injury-plagued campaign in 2025-26, the belief inside the club was that this was a long-term signing and any judgement would be reserved for when he was fully fit. Judging by recent performances, that patience is proving to be warranted.<\/p>\n “Today, the performance was really good against a really good team,” Isak said.<\/p>\n “The first half is really what we want to be about – winning balls and the intensity.”<\/p>\n The exciting thing for Iraola and Liverpool<\/a> is that Isak is nowhere near his best yet, and that should be a cause of worry for the rest of the top flight. It is Arsenal<\/a> next up in the league.<\/p>\n “Alex [Isak] is threatening, especially if we can get him in those positions and we can provide him good crosses. In this case, it’s a matter of Bradley [Barcola] winning the duel and being faster than the opposition to get us in that position,” said Iraola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a long time coming but Alexander Isak might finally be living up to his price…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813752","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=813752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}