{"id":1360246,"date":"2024-08-03T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1360246"},"modified":"2024-09-01T23:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T22:09:25","slug":"premier-league-pre-season-friendlies-round-up-isak-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/premier-league-pre-season-friendlies-round-up-isak-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things you might have missed from pre-season as Howe allays Isak injury fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re just two weeks away from the start of the 2024\/25 Premier League<\/a> campaign and pre-season preparations are ramping up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tours are coming to a close and those who went deep in tournaments are starting to arrive. There are still friendlies to come, but a lot of Premier League clubs will be hosting them more local than their commercial tours.<\/p>\n

Given all the football across several time zones it can be tough for fans to follow the happenings of the top clubs. So, we’ve rounded up what’s happened in Premier League side’s pre-season matches over the past few days.<\/p>\n

Eddie Howe allays Newcastle fans’ worries over Isak<\/h2>\n

Newcastle<\/a> continued their pre-season with a 2-0 defeat to Japanese side Yokohama F. Marinos. The hosts are in the middle of the J1 League season and currently sit 11th in the table, with more defeats than wins.<\/p>\n

But, being in the middle of their season, of course Yokohama F. Marinos were going to be fitter than Newcastle. And the 2-0 win over a practically full-strength Newcastle side perhaps shouldn’t be the upset some may see it as.<\/p>\n

And, now, Newcastle fans are worried about more than just the result of a pre-season friendly. Alexander Isak came off at half-time in the defeat, having collided with Yokohama F. Marinos goalkeeper Hiroki Iikura and looked to have hurt his shoulder.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Newcastle fans were worried that Isak had suffered an injury that could hurt their campaign. But Eddie Howe has revealed that the change was pre-planned and he doesn’t expect any problems with Isak’s shoulder.<\/p>\n

“No, that was scheduled for him. Of course he went over on his shoulder early in the game, it was sore but he was fine to carry on,” Howe told reporters.<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t envisage any problems but of course, we need to check out the mechanism and how his shoulder is but I think he looks okay.”<\/p>\n

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