Isak scores winner as Liverpool come from behind to beat Brentford

Liverpool beat Brentford 2-1 at Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday, 17 October 2026, Sky Sports reported. Keane Lewis-Potter put Brentford ahead in the 44th minute, and Yehor Yarmoliuk was sent off for violent conduct in first-half stoppage time.

Victor Munoz equalised in the 62nd minute, and Isak scored the winner in the 70th, Sky Sports said: his fifth Premier League goal of the season, on his first match back from injury. Vitaly Janelt was then sent off for a second yellow card.

Brentford manager Keith Andrews said "the sending off changes the dynamics of the game and it's more of a challenge. We gave them a real advantage."

The win moved Liverpool above Brentford into fifth place, Sky Sports reported. It said Isak's goal made it five in five games against Brentford, and that only Erling Haaland has a better 100 per cent hit rate against a Premier League side.

The photograph above shows Alexander Isak playing for Sweden in June 2026, not action from this match. Credit: Mikael Hervestad, Alexander Isak - Sweden - Greece21 (cropped), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Sources: Sky Sports.