Full news of the severity of Alexander Isak’s leg injury suffered when he was tackled following his goal on Saturday in Liverpool’s 2-1 victory over Tottenham will have to wait until Monday and the full results of an MRI on the impacted leg, but the initial signs are not positive.

According to multiple reports, a lengthy layoff is expected and the belief is that the player suffered a broken leg with an expected return time that would stretch into months and could see the striker miss much of the remainder of the 2025-26 season before he’s fully match fit.

It’s a significant blow for a player who has played as though feeling the weight of his summer record signing after arriving from Newcastle, and leaves the Reds very thin in attack heading into a busy holiday fixture run with Mohamed Salah currently off at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Having walked off the pitch under his own power, there had been some hope that Isak might have avoided an especially serious injury, but the player headed straight to the dressing room and didn’t return to the bench and manager Arne Slot hadn’t sounded positive post-match.

“I don’t have any news on him but if a player scores, gets injured, and doesn’t try to come back it is usually not a good thing but I cannot say anything more than that,” Slot said on Saturday. “That is just a gut feeling and nothing more than that, nothing medical to say about it.”