Alexander Isak shakes hands with Arne Slot after coming off in Liverpool's vital 2-0 victory at West Ham United (Image: Alex Pantling/Getty Images)

Liverpool supporters had seen it all before. And that was becoming the problem for Alexander Isak.

So when West Ham United goalkeeper Alphonse Areola spread himself to make an outstanding point-blank save from the striker in the first half here, the fear was recent service was being continued.

For a player who was a regular scorer in the past two seasons with Newcastle United, the barren run in the top flight – which stretched back almost six months going into this game – had become almost as heavy a weight around Isak's neck as the British record £125million fee that eventually took him to Anfield in the summer. READ MORE : Alexander

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