The Reds\u2019 No.9 was injured in a challenge in the act of scoring the opening goal during Saturday\u2019s 2-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur and has had an operation on an ankle problem that included a fibula fracture.<\/p>\n
Slot was asked on Tuesday morning if there is a timeframe in mind for Isak\u2019s return to action and replied: \u201cNo, it\u2019s going to be a long injury. For a couple of months. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a big, big, big disappointment for him and as a result of that of course also for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later on in his press conference to preview Liverpool\u2019s meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, the head coach was quizzed on how much support the Sweden forward will need and whether he is \u2018confident he can still play a part at the back end of the season\u2019.<\/p>\n
Slot answered: \u201cYeah, the last thing I am. And the first thing, it\u2019s been a really challenging and difficult period for him, I think.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou join a new club and usually when you join a new club you are, and he was of course, very excited and you want to show immediately all the qualities you have but that was simply impossible.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe no-one understands but if you haven\u2019t trained for three or four months on a serious level with the team and you\u2019re playing in this league\u2026 in this league you need to be on the top of your game to impact a game of football.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat took, which we all knew, months before we could bring him there because there was no pre-season, there were games, games, games.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had hardly any time to train, so we always knew that it would take him time and that\u2019s why he is so unlucky that he is now injured because I think we all saw with his goal against West Ham, with this goal [against Tottenham], that he got closer and closer to the player he was at Newcastle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds\u2019 No.9 was injured in a challenge in the act of scoring the opening goal during Saturday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-365659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}