Karakand said:
I'm not sure I'd say they don't like Izzy but there definitely seems to be some chemistry issues. The backs would kinda throw him to the wolves a couple of times today. :-/
From the interviews I've seen here in Sweden, he keep saying "We should have won that" or "I should play here". He keep going back to stuff that happened earlier this autumn, like the team loss, while Sven and the rest of the team keep looking forward. I can see that his negativity isn't liked by the team. He do awesome saves but doesn't seem to be thanked by his teammates (harde to judge on TV), he plays well but doesn't seem to be getting any players saying that in media (where Hart and Kasper kept getting praised by the teammates, they need confidence boosts as juniors of course though).
Richards is such a big friend with Hart that I almost could think that he passed the ball to Isak in tricky situations just to get him to screw up.
Richards and Dunne keep trying to tell Isak what to do too, I saw today how Richards played the ball back to Isak and then started to point towards Dunne hysterically.
But who knows, maybe they did that to Hart too, just to help team with options. The commentators had a point today though: "Why would Richards pass the ball back to Isaksson, he must have understood that he had the exact same options as Isaksson had".
Isaksson has always been the quiet type though, I just hope he isn't being mr Negative in the dressing room. If so, even though I've always been a fan of him, I'd say sell him and put Hart in goal. But I doubt this is the case, just makes you wonder when you see how well he playes on the pitch and still doesn't get any praise, except from Sven.
(Also, I must add that he didn't just say "BAH! We sucked so much earlier" in an interview, the journalist asked him to comment their latest games and he basically said "We should have won against team X, it was a poor performance")