Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 6:57 PM• Noel Korteweg

Alexander Isak will no longer be in action this calendar year, Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe confirmed on Tuesday. The Swede suffered a thigh injury during training for his national team in September and will have to watch for another two months. As a result, he will miss his club’s next six games.

Howe reacted to the news of Isak at the press conference on Tuesday in the run-up to the meeting with Everton. “It’s very frustrating for him. As a player in a new league and at a new club you want to make an immediate impact and he did that in his first games. It’s been frustrating because he’s put in a lot of work to get fit. He really wants to leave his mark here.”

Isak came over from Real Sociedad last transfer period for seventy million euros, which meant a record amount for Newcastle. To date, the former Willem II player has only played three games for Newcastle, but managed to make a strong impression by scoring two goals. He was accurate during the 2-1 defeat at Liverpool and he managed to save a point at home against Bournemouth (1-1).

Newcastle has been doing well in the Premier League without Isak lately. be like that the Magpies unbeaten for five games and Callum Wilson is usually the replacement for Isak in the point of attack. The latter is normally also a basic player in the national team of Sweden, which will not be present at the World Cup due to the defeat in the play-offs against Poland. In the last Nations League match against Slovenia, Isak was already out of the party and then selector Janne Andersson opted for an attack consisting of Robin Quaison and Dejan Kulusevski.