Alexander Isak was sent off and had to be helped off the pitch after being rammed by Micky van de Ven while scoring Liverpool’s opening goal against Tottenham.
Arne Slott says Liverpool will assess the extent of Alexander Isak’s injury after he was sent off during the narrow 2-1 win over Tottenham. Isak was sent off from the pitch just 10 minutes after coming on as a substitute at half-time after being rammed by Micky van de Ven.
This summer’s £125m transfer, Liverpool took the lead with a strong finish from Guglielmo Vicario, who had been pounced on goal by Florian Wirths. However, he was unable to enjoy the effort as Van de Ven took a hard catch as he tried to block the shot.
The Sweden international appeared to be in distress and his teammates surrounded him with concern. He was eventually helped off the pitch by two members of Liverpool’s medical staff and replaced by Jeremy Frimpong.
“We’ll have to wait and see,” Slott said when asked about Issac on BBC Match of the Day. “I can’t talk about it because it hasn’t been too long after the game, but it’s never good when a player has to go. I didn’t want to be with 10 people who took Frimpong out, so I’m okay with the injury.”
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“The other two (Isaac and Connor Bradley) we’ll have to wait and see. The good thing is we still have a week, so we hope we have enough players to play next week.”
Slott added in a press conference: “There’s no news about him. But if a player scores a goal and then gets injured and doesn’t come back on the pitch, he doesn’t try to come back. For example, Conor Bradley tried to do that, but he couldn’t continue, so I had to take him off too.”
“But if a player doesn’t even try to come back, that’s usually not a good thing. But beyond that I can’t say anything. It’s just a gut feeling. There’s nothing medically I can say about it. I haven’t talked to him about it yet.”
Frimpong, who came on as a substitute, suffered a bloody lip in a collision with Richarlison and was replaced in the final stages by Federico Chiesa. Right-back Bradley was the player sent off at half-time to replace Isak as the slot became more aggressive following Xavi Simmons’ red card.
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Liverpool took a 1-0 lead through Isak’s goal, before Hugo Ekitike made it 2-0 with a superb header from Frimpong’s deflected cross. Richarlison halved the deficit from a loose ball before Cristian Romero was sent off for a second yellow card in stoppage time, leaving Spurs with nine men.
“It was 11-on-11 there and they added another nine minutes there,” Slott said. “I think it was completely fine here because of the injury treatment and VAR. So I can’t complain about his nine minutes at all. They were close. They came close a few times.”
“It’s unbelievable when you play nine men, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had the ball for eight-and-a-half minutes in nine minutes. That’s not what you expect and maybe that says a lot about where we are this season. We need to win a few more times to make the setback a little more comfortable. The last 10 minutes stick out in my mind, but there was a lot more to like in the first 80-90 minutes.”
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