Alexander Isak 'surprised' Arne Slot on Liverpool debut as Everton plan clear

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Slot reflected on a successful night for his new centre-forward afterwards, who showed promising chemistry with fellow summer signing Florian Wirtz.

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"I was positively surprised by how fit Alexander was during the 60 minutes," the Reds head coach acknowledged.

"That maybe tells you that it might be different to sign a 20-year-old from a different league than a 25-year-old used to playing in this league.

"Although he only trained for two weeks, he has so many games under his belt in this league.

He's not going to play 90 against Everton.

"One of the things you need if you want to compete for the Premier League and the cups is mentality and fitness, and quality, and today we saw that.

I can come up with so many great attacks we had today, but everyone is talking about the late winner.

"I understand it as it's the story of this game and the last five games.

I can see with him as well, he is getting fitter and adjusting more to us, which is normal, as you need a bit of time to adjust.

"People forget he's a 22-year-old going for the first time abroad.

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