Liverpool boss Slot reveals timeframe for Isak return as he gives blunt reply to Elliott question
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot owns disclosed that Reds demonstrator Alexander Isak will certainly miss “a pair of months” of reaction after going against his lesser leg.
The Sweden international possessed to be filched off the bazaar instantaneously after racking upward to ambition to posed Liverpool 1-0 upward against Tottenham at the weekend.
Speculation mounted that his injury could be more serious than initially though wearing a theorized broken leg and Liverpool proven in a testament on Monday that he muted ‘an ankle joint injury that forced a fibula pit’.
The testament read: ‘Alexander Isak today profitably undertook surgery on the injury he continual on Saturday.
‘The Liverpool demonstrator was injured in a crunch in the process of racking upward the opening ambition against Tottenham Hotspur and possessed to be substituted.
‘After medical diagnosis, an operation was wrapped up today on an ankle joint injury that forced a fibula pit.
‘Isak’s recovery will certainly currently deepen at the AXA Training Centre, wearing most distinctly no duration yet interjected on his retort.’
On the size of his injury, Slot annunciated in a press meeting on Tuesday: “It’s gleaning involved in be a long injury. A pair of months. That’s a burly downer for him and for us.”
But Slot is serious that Isak will certainly still attribute in the standard of the expire of the season, the Liverpool top pooch added: “I’m prospect he can tinker a segment at the expire of the season. It’s been a hardy and challenging period for him.
“He was terribly thrilled when he signed upward wearing and longed to attest with one voice of his top amenities, however that was unobtainable due to scarcity of pre-season. In this league you ought to be on top of your arcade to result a arcade of football. That took months before we could carry him here. We accepted it would snatch him time, and that’s why it’s so unlucky that he’s currently injured.”
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Hugo Ekitike, that owns already been doing well this season, will certainly currently be the large male for Liverpool however Slot still appointments several room for breakthrough.
As speedily as lugged out qualms what Ekitike ultimatums to integrate, Slot replied: “He ultimatums to bring tougher, however he already became tougher. He’s speedy, he can rating a ambition, excellent maneuvering, excellent dripping capability.
“His greatest thing to integrate is gleaning sure wearing his number and how speedy he is, that he can become physically superb. That’s what he’s operating on terribly hard. He was taxed in the last few mins against Tottenham which is recurring.”
As speedily as lugged out qualms about sends and a resolution observing Harvey Elliott, Slot deflected: “My initially and only pointers are on the forthcoming arcades. Two hardy ones. It’s a time for the players we have to roll their sleeves upward and for the supporters to assistance us to bring the expire results we ache. The sold players and supporters ought to impart everything they have.”
Directly lugged out qualms about Elliott, that’s been fastened wearing a prospective retort to Anfield from his financing at Aston Suite, Slot annunciated: “Harvey is an Aston Suite gamer. He’s manufactured for to be going there for the season.”
