Liverpool injury boost as Isak returns to training

Alexander Isak will return to first-team training with Liverpool on Thursday after injury.

The Swedish striker has not featured since suffering a serious leg injury against Tottenham Hotspur in December. Isak underwent surgery on the fractured fibula and ankle issue, which derailed what has been a frustrating debut season for the record signing.

Arne Slot has confirmed Isak will train with the team today, ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester City. Liverpool then face PSG in the Champions League on Wednesday night.

“I think Alex is in a really good place because Sweden qualified for the World Cup yesterday evening and apart from that he’s going to train with the group again for the first time tomorrow,” Slot told the club’s official website.

“If you’ve worked so hard for three, four months or something like that and then to return to team training, that’s for everyone very nice. So Alex is, in that sense, in a good place.

“Of course it’s only his first session, after three or four months [out], with the team but it’s good to have him back because we all know who we signed and we’ve signed an incredible striker.

“So to have him again in a team that’s usually generating quite a lot of chances – and maybe not immediately from the first moment that he can start – but to have him back for the last two months is, I think, very helpful for us.”

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