Frank hits back at Slot over claim of ‘reckless’ Van de Ven challenge on Isak

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Arne Slot has criticised Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven for the “reckless” challenge that left Alexander Isak with a fractured leg.Liverpool will be without their record £125m signing “for a couple of months”, Slot confirmed on Tuesday, after he was injured while scoring in the team’s 2-1 win at Tottenham on Saturday. I don’t think you will ever get an injury out of a tackle like that.

But the tackle of Van de Ven, if you make a tackle like that 10 times, 10 times there is a serious chance the player gets a serious injury.”Slot expects Isak to feature before the end of the season but admits the injury is a major setback for a player who has endured a difficult start to his Liverpool career. The 26-year-old’s opener against Spurs was only his third goal for the club and his impact has been hindered by fitness problems.Slot said: “I am confident he can play a part in the season.

He joined a new club, he was very excited and you want to show immediately all the qualities that you have. We always knew it would take him time and that is why he is so unlucky that he is now injured because we all saw with his goal at West Ham, with this goal [against Spurs], that he got closer and closer to the player he was last season at Newcastle.”Conor Bradley was also injured in the win at Spurs and is rated “50-50” by Slot to return against Wolves on Saturday.