Arne Slot shares Alexander Isak plan for Atletico Madrid after Burnley absence

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Slot suggested that the Burnley gam came too soon for Isak and clarified why the 25-year-old is almost guaranteed to play when the Reds kick off their Champions League campaign at home to Atletico on Wednesday.

"As everybody knew he didn't have any team training at Newcastle then went to the national team (and) only played there for 15-20 minutes," Slot explained.

"We think, with a week where we play three games in seven days, this is the best lead-up for him to be available against Atletico Madrid."

When questioned about how quickly Isak can reach full speed, Slot told Sky Sports: "That's always difficult to say, up to full speed.

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Alexander Isak took part in his first training sessions with Liverpool during the week.

"What I can say is that normally in a pre-season, after one or two weeks you play your first 45-60 minutes, you build that up gradually.

"But that you do with proper training sessions during the week and now we hardly have any proper training sessions with the team because we play, like I just said, three games in seven days.

"So, where would he be

Second or third week of pre-season, I would say, so able to hopefully play during the week 45 minutes or more, but then two days later, as you know, we play Everton again.

"It's going to be interesting for the performance staff, for us, to get the best out of him at the start but also to keep him available for the end."



That choice was because he missed out for four months on team training," Slot said.

"He's in his second or third week of pre-season

We have given him a proper week and then we think maybe he will get more than 10 or 15 minutes in our Wednesday game and that's the way to build him up