{"id":570220,"date":"2026-04-07T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:06:10","slug":"psg-vs-liverpool-alexander-isak-named-in-champions-league-quarterfinal-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570220\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG vs. Liverpool: Alexander Isak named in Champions League quarterfinal squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"d29363ad-0204-25cf-7611-8aff328308b1\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/235662\/alexander-isak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Isak<\/a> has been named in the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> squad for Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League quarterfinal at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"79843c9e-0fe0-63b4-b591-9affc0dbd517\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> after 15 weeks on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has been unable to get anywhere near matching the hype or his eye-watering \u00a3125 million ($166m) price tag since completing his acrimonious deadline-day switch from Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Isak has only managed 16 appearances for Liverpool having had to play catch up in terms of fitness and deal with some minor injuries before suffering a significant issue in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Sweden international was hurt in a tackle by <a data-player-guid=\"fb39b112-dd7e-a1e3-8852-851004f0cc18\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/296512\/micky-van-de-ven\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Micky van de Ven<\/a> when scoring the opening goal in a 2-1 win over Tottenham, leading to surgery on an ankle injury which included a fibula fracture.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Alexander Isak is set to return to action for the first time since the end of 2025.\u00a0Molly Darlington\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Isak&#8217;s absence has been keenly felt and his place in the 21-man squad for Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League quarter-final first leg at PSG could be a major boost for Arne Slot&#8217;s stumbling side.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure is mounting on the Dutchman and his team after concerning recent performances were compounded by Saturday&#8217;s humiliating 4-0 loss at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> in the FA Cup quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Isak returned to team training last Thursday and worked with his team-mates on Tuesday morning before jetting off to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"81be996c-0f98-eec4-6284-c6be0d186360\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=478\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak has been named in the Liverpool squad for Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League quarterfinal at Paris Saint-Germain after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-570220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570220","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=570220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}