Overview

• Wayne Rooney told BBC Radio 5 Live that Mohamed Salah will dislike the attention on Alexander Isak, calling it a matter of personal pride and recalling how new signings once sharpened his own competitiveness.
• Alexander Isak began the Merseyside Derby on the bench and made a late cameo, with Slot explaining the choice was based on building match fitness.
• Liverpool beat Everton 2-1, with Hugo Ekitike scoring and Ryan Gravenberch netting after an assist from Salah.
• Salah, 33, recently signed an extension and is viewed as short of his top form so far this season, though he continues to contribute goals and assists.
• Isak arrived for a reported British-record fee of about £125m as part of a roughly £414.5m summer spend that also brought in Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike, intensifying competition in attack.