All credit to Sean Dyche and Nottingham Forest. The club, which at the start of the season was on a steady course towards relegation, neutralized the reigning Premier League champions completely – at Anfield. A 0-3 win over the club that lost only 4 games last season, then a wild signing round this summer with reinforcements worth well over £400 million. Not surprisingly, the player gets to 125 million pounds pes so it holds.
We got a bit of a feeling this summer that with Florian Wirtz and not least Alexander Isak in red, in addition to last season’s top scorer Salah, Liverpool would waltz across all defensive lines in the Premier League for a single back-to-back title.
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Contrary. Before the home game against Forest on Saturday, last season’s second highest scorer was without a Premier League goal in 253 minutes. The rest has been spent by the super striker on the bench or injury bench. On Saturday, Isak was finally ready to play, on the pitch in the starting eleven, until the 68th minute. When the Swede was substituted without scoring, in a game Liverpool really needed to get goals from the former goal guarantor, he had been completely neutralised by the Forest defence.
After the game, there was harsh criticism from Sky Sports commentators, who summed up Isak’s contribution with:
“Another miserable performance from Isak. The striker lost every single one of his seven duels this afternoon. He has been completely anonymous,” the studio said.
Now it’s not just Isak who is struggling, but for Liverpool supporters, excuses that the most expensive player of all time “needs time after a bad pre-season” are no longer tenable.
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