striker edges closer to Liverpool return

Alexander Isak will return to team training tomorrow and is set to be available to help Liverpool’s quest for silverware over the season’s final weeks.

The Sweden international has endured a difficult first year at Anfield after joining from Newcastle last summer and has not played since breaking his fibula and damaging his ankle in the act of scoring at Tottenham in December.

The £125million club record-signing remains on track to return in the coming weeks with a view to also playing at the World Cup this summer following his country’s qualification via their 3-2 win over Poland in the play-offs last night.

Reds boss Arne Slot told Liverpoolfc.com: “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.

“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.”

Liverpool have struggled with sharp-shooter Isak

Isak’s absence has been keenly felt with Liverpool’s profligacy in front of goal hampering their chances of a top-four finish.

“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,” added Slot.

“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.”

Liverpool are still in the Champions League and will play Paris Saint-Germain in the two-legged quarter-finals while they take on Manchester City in the last eight of the FA Cup on Saturday.