"First of all I think the Swedish manager, Jon Dahl Tomasson, deserves a big, big, big compliment because he gets one of the best, maybe the best striker in the world in and needs to play two very important games for his country, but understands if he would play him twice for 90 minutes the player would have probably been injured for multiple weeks."
"So, don't expect him every single game 90 minutes on the pitch -- that's definitely not going to happen in the upcoming weeks. He missed a proper pre-season, I think he missed three or four months of team sessions, so now we have to build him up gradually with us playing so many games and [having] very little training time."
Alexander Isak was left out of Liverpool's squad for the Burnley match after completing a British-record £125 million transfer from Newcastle United. He had not played competitively since the previous season's final day and made only 18 minutes for Sweden during the recent international break. Manager Arne Slot praised Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson for managing Isak's workload and said Liverpool will follow a similar cautious approach. Slot explained Isak missed several months of team sessions and will be built up gradually amid a congested schedule to protect his long-term fitness.
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