{"id":31228,"date":"2025-12-06T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/arne-slott-says-newcastle-star-is-the-main-reason-alexander-isak-is-struggling-at-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:35:31","slug":"arne-slott-says-newcastle-star-is-the-main-reason-alexander-isak-is-struggling-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/arne-slott-says-newcastle-star-is-the-main-reason-alexander-isak-is-struggling-at-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slott says Newcastle star is the main reason Alexander Isak is struggling at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/arne-slott-says-newcastle-star-is-the-main-reason-alexander-isak-is-struggling-at-liverpool\/#Arne_Slott_Alexander_Isaac_lacks_link-up_with_Jacob_Murphy\" >Arne Slott: Alexander Isaac lacks link-up with Jacob Murphy<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/arne-slott-says-newcastle-star-is-the-main-reason-alexander-isak-is-struggling-at-liverpool\/#Can_Alexander_Isak_turn_his_fortunes_around_at_Liverpool\" >Can Alexander Isak turn his fortunes around at Liverpool?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Alexander Isak had a difficult start to his life at Liverpool. (Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexander Isak had a difficult start to his Liverpool career after joining from Newcastle for a British record \u00a3125 million in the summer. He has scored just two goals in 12 appearances in all competitions, with last weekend&#8217;s victory over West Ham the only time he broke his Premier League duck.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isak was unable to live up to his performance at Newcastle. Liverpool have cited his failure to participate properly in pre-season as the main reason, but Arne Slott has gone a step further.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Arne_Slott_Alexander_Isaac_lacks_link-up_with_Jacob_Murphy\"><\/span>Arne Slott: Alexander Isaac lacks link-up with Jacob Murphy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-414x289.jpg.webp 414w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-630x440.jpg.webp 630w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-768x537.jpg.webp 768w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-770x538.jpg.webp 770w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-900x629.jpg.webp 900w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-1200x839.jpg.webp 1200w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-1536x1074.jpg.webp 1536w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isak-Murphy-2048x1432.jpg.webp 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1230px) 770px, (min-width:1020px) 630px, (min-width:900px) 880px, (min-width:680px) 97vw, (min-width:414px) 414px, 100vw\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Isaac and Jacob Murphy at Newcastle. (Photo by Alex Pantling\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking to the media on Friday (via Liverpool Echo), Slott admitted that Isak doesn&#8217;t have the same chemistry with his Liverpool team-mates compared to the one he left at Newcastle, and specifically mentioned his partnership with Jacob Murphy.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The main difference for him is that we face a lot of low blocks here. It&#8217;s not that it didn&#8217;t happen at Newcastle, but it wasn&#8217;t as much as I would like. I think the league has changed this season. We&#8217;re seeing a lot more low blocks than last season. But it&#8217;s not just against us, you&#8217;re seeing it in a lot of games.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s tougher for him than it was at Newcastle, but I think it&#8217;s also about him adapting to his team-mates and them adapting to him. But it&#8217;s clear and obvious that we don&#8217;t have a profile on Jacob Murphy, for example, at the moment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_Alexander_Isak_turn_his_fortunes_around_at_Liverpool\"><\/span>Can Alexander Isak turn his fortunes around at Liverpool?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that Isak hasn&#8217;t been able to replicate his Newcastle form for Liverpool so far, but his performances have fallen short of expectations. He has time, but he will need to step up sooner rather than later, especially with Hugo Ekitike vying for the starting striker spot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Isak had a difficult start to his life at Liverpool. (Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images) Alexander Isak had a difficult start to his Liverpool career after joining from Newcastle for a British record \u00a3125 million in the summer. He has scored just two goals in 12 appearances in all competitions, with last weekend&#8217;s victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-31228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}