Alexander Isak suffered an injury to his lower left leg when scoring at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday
Liverpool fear Alexander Isak has suffered a significant lower leg injury as they await the results of an MRI scan on Monday. The Sweden international picked up the problem when he was caught by Tottenham Hotspur's Micky van den Ven when opening the scoring in Saturday's 2-1 win in North London.
Isak, who had only been on the pitch for 11 minutes as a second-half substitute, was immediately withdrawn for Jeremie Frimpong and was helped off the pitch by Dr Jonathan Power and Chris Morgan, two members of the club's medical team.
Liverpool are now awaiting the results of a further MRI scan on Monday but are braced for Isak to have sustained significant damage to his lower leg. The club are unwilling to speculate further on the severity of the £125m striker's issue and no timescale has yet been placed on his absence.
Arne Slot is due to speak to the media on Tuesday for the visit from rock-bottom Wolves on December 27 and the head coach will be better placed to offer a more fulsome update on the injury to his No.9, who registered his third goal for the club with the strike against Spurs.
Speaking immediately after the 2-1 win on Saturday, Slot conceded he was not in a position to offer much of an update so soon after the game, admitting: "I don't have any news on him but if a player scores, gets injured and doesn't come back on the pitch or doesn't try to come back, which Conor Bradley, for example did but I had to take him off and couldn't come on.
"But if a player doesn't try to come back it is usually not a good thing but I cannot say anything more than that. That is just a gut feeling and nothing more than that, nothing medical to say about it.
"I haven't spoken to him about it yet but it's a good thing he scored, a good goal assisted by Florian Wirtz. I said players are getting better, the team is getting better. It wasn't perfect today, especially the last 10 minutes but we pick up points and are developing in a way I want to see."
Isak, who only joined the club on September 1 after a protracted and acrimonious move from Newcastle United in the summer transfer window, has already been sidelined for a month with a groin issue picked up in the 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on October 22.
Also speaking immediately after the game on Saturday, captain Virgil van Dijk said: "Injuries unfortunately are part of football and hopefully with Alex it's not too bad.
"He scored a great goal. It's too soon after the game to know (the extent of it). He will need to be assessed. Hopefully the injuries won't be too bad. We all saw how bad it looked with Alex but hopefully it won't be too bad."