Liverpool had to shell out around £125 million to force Newcastle to release Alexander Isak last summer. The Premier League’s second-highest scoring player last season was brought in to decide the big games. On Tuesday, Liverpool had to raise the level of their finishing against PSG, the Ligue 1 giant came to Anfield with a 2-0 lead from the first leg. Arne Slot somewhat surprisingly chose to bet on Alexander Isak in the second half, a player who had played 22 minutes against Fulham at the weekend as a pre-season after an injury break since December.
This plan proved to fail. Now Isak should not be blamed for Liverpool losing once again 0-2, but criticism hailed for Slot’s choice of a player without match practice.
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Arne Slot’s decision to start Alexander Isak against PSG was heavily criticized after the final whistle. The Liverpool manager strongly disagreed. The Liverpool coach explained the choice after the game
-He (Isak)) was close to scoring twice, and that’s why you play with a striker of his calibre. It was a header from a set-piece and a good run deep behind Willian Pacho, where he was very close to scoring, even though it ended up offside,” Slot begins, according to BBC Sport.
“It’s good to have him back. He was ready, and if I didn’t think he was ready, I wouldn’t have played him,” Slot concludes.
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