Striker has made slow start since £125m move
Liverpool short at right-back with Bradley injured
Arne Slot has said he may start Alexander Isak ahead of fitter Liverpool strikers to give the £125m signing the game time needed to recapture his Newcastle form.
Isak could make his first Liverpool appearance in a month at home to Nottingham Forest on Saturday having recovered from the groin injury sustained at Eintracht Frankfurt on 22 October. Slot had hoped the 26-year-old’s match fitness would improve during the international break, but he played only 28 minutes of Sweden’s defeat by Switzerland before sitting out their game against Slovenia to avoid the risk of being suspended for next year’s World Cup playoff.
Slot has several fitness issues and expects to be without right-backs Conor Bradley and Jeremie Frimpong for several weeks. Florian Wirtz will also be absent against Forest having sustained a muscle problem with Germany.
