Arne Slot admits he had a nasty ‘gut feeling’ about Alexander Isak’s injury after Liverpool’s 2-1 win against Tottenham on Saturday.
Spurs were reduced to 10 men in the primary half with Xavi Simons’ red card and had to attend until the 56th minute to open the scoring through Isak.
After meeting Florian Wirtz’s pass, Isak was on the receiving end of a heavy challenge from Micky van de Ven as he finished past Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.
Isak, who was brought on as a half-time substitute for Conor Bradley, received treatment on the pitch and was then replaced by Jeremie Frimpong.
Liverpool doubled their lead through Hugo Ekitike before Richarlison’s goal within the 83rd minute arrange a nervy finish for Slot’s side on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
‘I don’t have any news on him,’ Slot said of Isak after Liverpool’s win.
‘But when a player scores after which gets injured and doesn’t come back on the pitch, and in addition doesn’t try to return back, which Conor Bradley for instance did but I needed to take him out as well because he couldn’t go on, but when a player doesn’t try to return back that’s often not an excellent thing.
‘But I cannot say anything greater than that, that’s just gut feeling, nothing medical.’
Asked if Isak had his own feeling about his injury, Slot replied: ‘Haven’t spoken to him about that yet.
‘It’s an excellent thing he scored, an excellent goal, assisted by Florian Wirtz, I said last week players are improving, the team is improving, again, wasn’t perfect today, especially within the last 10 minutes but within the meantime we pick up points and I see the team developing in a way I’d wish to see.’
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