On the corresponding weekend final season, Isak scored for Newcastle United in a win that relegated Ipswich City.
It was his twenty sixth purpose of a profitable season that will assist propel Eddie Howe’s facet into the Champions League.
He ended the marketing campaign with 27, and a bit of 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 proper place for me to develop even additional and take my recreation to the following degree.”
But that dream transfer has become one thing of a nightmare for each participant and membership.
Isak suffered a critical ankle damage 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 – properly 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 may very well be brighter days forward for Isak.
“It has been a very long time coming for somebody who price a British file switch payment,” 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 of little bit of what we thought we might 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 impressive participant – and somebody the membership will nonetheless have huge expectations for.
“With Mohamed Salah leaving in the summertime and Hugo Ekitike more likely to miss the remainder of the calendar 12 months, the Reds are going to wish him again to his greatest.”
