On the corresponding weekend final season, Isak scored for Newcastle United in a win that relegated Ipswich Town.
It was his twenty sixth goal 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 little over three months later joined Liverpool.
“I want to create history,” mentioned Isak, after an acrimonious transfer earlier than which he had educated away from Newcastle‘s first-team squad.
“I want to win trophies. This is the perfect place for me to grow even further and take my game to the next level.”
Yet that dream transfer has become one thing of a nightmare for each participant and membership.
Isak suffered a serious ankle injury in December that included a fractured fibula.
Prior to that he had been beginning instead of Hugo Ekitike, who many followers thought deserved to be chosen. There had been strategies Liverpool had been struggling to suit Isak into their system.
Four 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.
Against 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 – effectively down on the three,319 he managed for Newcastle final season.
But Martin Keown, a pundit on Saturday’s Match of the Day, believes there may be brighter days forward for Isak.
“It’s been a long time coming for someone who cost a British record transfer fee,” mentioned three-time Premier League winner Keown.
“But that feeling of celebrating with the home fans is something for him to build on. Isak showed us a little bit of what we thought we’d see from the start of the season.
“If Liverpool can get him totally match and again to the shape he confirmed at Newcastle, then clearly he is an excellent participant – and somebody the membership will nonetheless have large 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 greatest.”
