{"id":6214,"date":"2026-05-08T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:26:17","slug":"isak-back-in-training-ahead-of-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6214","title":{"rendered":"Isak back in training ahead of Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Alexander Isak has trained with Liverpool ahead of tomorrow\u2019s Premier League fixture against Chelsea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish striker missed last weekend\u2019s 3-2 defeat at Manchester United, the latest absence in an injury-impacted debut campaign. Liverpool can secure Champions League qualification with a win at Anfield tomorrow lunchtime and the Reds have been boosted by Isak\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Slot said Isak will be assessed today before a decision is made on his involvement.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Liverpool team news: Alisson and Salah sidelined for Chelsea clash<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Elsewhere, Alisson Becker and Mohamed Salah remain out, though both are nearing returns to first-team training. Giorgi Mamardashvili is set to take part in training today and could replace Freddie Woodman in goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex (Iask) has trained with us again, only for the first time, yesterday. So that is a positive, yesterday he did pasts of it (training). Hopefully he can do parts or all of it today. Then we will see how much we can use him tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlisson not yet, hasn\u2019t trained with us yet but very close. Mamardashvili will train with us today for the first time, so let\u2019s see how he is going to react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMo also hasn\u2019t trained with us yet but is also getting very, very close to train with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0\ud83d\udcc8 Power Rankings: Man City stumble, PSG take top spot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0The English players with the most goal contributions in Champions League knockout ties<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Isak has trained with Liverpool ahead of tomorrow\u2019s Premier League fixture against Chelsea. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}