Alexander Isak was the subject of a rather unforgiving verdict from one reporter as the Liverpool striker exited the World Cup on Tuesday following Sweden’s 3-0 defeat to France in the round of 32.
He became the fifth Reds player to be knocked out of the tournament in the ***** e of 24 hours, suffering the same fate as Florian Wirtz (Germany), Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo and Ryan Gravenberch (Netherlands).
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Graham Potter’s side had no answer to a rampant Les Bleus outfit in New Jersey, and the performance of our number 9 came in for plenty of scrutiny.
Matthew Guyett handed Isak a lowly 4/10 in his player ratings for GiveMeSport, observing that the 26-year-old was ‘rarely involved’ and, on that display, is ‘not in the same league as [Kylian] Mbappe and [Michael] Olise’.
He became the fifth Reds player to be knocked out of the tournament in the ***** e of 24 hours, suffering the same fate as Florian Wirtz (Germany), Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo and Ryan Gravenberch (Netherlands).
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Graham Potter’s side had no answer to a rampant Les Bleus outfit in New Jersey, and the performance of our number 9 came in for plenty of scrutiny.
Matthew Guyett handed Isak a lowly 4/10 in his player ratings for GiveMeSport, observing that the 26-year-old was ‘rarely involved’ and, on that display, is ‘not in the same league as [Kylian] Mbappe and [Michael] Olise’.
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