On the corresponding weekend final season, Isak scored for Newcastle United in a win that relegated Ipswich Town.
It was his twenty sixth objective of a profitable season that may assist propel Eddie Howe’s facet into the Champions League.
He ended the marketing campaign with 27, and a bit over three months later joined Liverpool.
“I need to create historical past,” stated Isak, after an acrimonious transfer earlier than which he had educated away from Newcastle‘s first-team squad.
“I need to win trophies. That is the right place for me to develop even additional and take my sport to the subsequent stage.”
But that dream transfer has changed into one thing of a nightmare for each participant and membership.
Isak suffered a serious ankle injury in December that included a fractured fibula.
Previous to that he had been beginning rather than Hugo Ekitike, who many followers thought deserved to be chosen. There have been strategies Liverpool have been struggling to suit Isak into their system.
4 months later, he’s nonetheless a shadow of the participant he was final season and has nonetheless to finish a full 90 minutes in a Liverpool shirt.
Towards Palace he had 18 touches and registered one try, from which he scored, earlier than being changed by Ryan Gravenberch within the 79th minute.
He has now performed 1,009 minutes for Liverpool – nicely down on the three,319 he managed for Newcastle final season.
However Martin Keown, a pundit on Saturday’s Match of the Day, believes there could possibly be brighter days forward for Isak.
“It has been a very long time coming for somebody who price a British document switch charge,” stated three-time Premier League winner Keown.
“However that feeling of celebrating with the house followers is one thing for him to construct on. Isak confirmed us a bit little bit of what we thought we would see from the beginning of the season.
“If Liverpool can get him absolutely match and again to the shape he confirmed at Newcastle, then clearly he is an excellent participant – and somebody the membership will nonetheless have huge expectations for.
“With Mohamed Salah leaving in the summer and Hugo Ekitike likely to miss the rest of the calendar year, the Reds are going to want him again to his finest.”
