Isak ends a drought as Liverpool beat subdued West Ham on an emotional day.
Alexander Isak’s first Premier League goal for Liverpool helped Arne Slot’s side halt a damaging run of form with a 2-0 victory over a flat West Ham United on an afternoon overshadowed by tributes to Hammers’ legend Billy Bonds at the London Stadium.
Isak, a record signing for Newcastle United, finally broke his league duck for the club on the hour, before Cody Gakpo struck in stoppage time to seal Liverpool’s second league win in 71 days and end a sequence of nine defeats in 12 matches in all competitions. West Ham, who finished with 10 men after Lucas Paqueta’s needless red card for dissent, rarely threatened and failed to register a shot on target.
On a poignant day when the home support honoured former captain and manager Bonds, it was Liverpool who found the resolve they had been missing. Slot's reshaped side was more organised than in recent weeks, while Nuno Espírito Santo's team slipped to a defeat that leaves them 17th, out of the relegation zone only on goal difference.