Conor Bradley described Florian Wirtz as a ‘terrific participant’ after his match-winning aim towards Wolves on Saturday.
The previous Bayer Leverkusen attacking midfielder adopted up a second Premier League help (Tottenham) along with his first aim within the English top-flight.
A tough-fought 2-1 victory towards Rob Edwards’ males noticed the Merseysiders make it three league wins in a row (and 4 in all competitions).
Florian Wirtz is impressing in Liverpool coaching
Bradley talked up Wirtz’s capacity on the ball throughout Liverpool staff coaching.
“Clearly he’s needed to wait a bit little bit of time for it [goal vs Wolves], however I used to be so glad for him. He’s such a terrific participant. We see it in coaching day by day, how good he’s with the ball,” the Northern Eire worldwide instructed the membership’s official web site.
“You’d quite have him in your staff than not in your staff, put it that method. He’s terrific to have.
“You possibly can type of simply give him the ball in any space of the pitch and he’s in a position to do one thing with it and preserve the ball for us. He’s so essential to have and we’re fortunate to have him.”
In fact, this maybe shouldn’t come as any shock to a membership that broke a membership file (£116m) to beat Bayern Munich to his signature in the summertime.
How is Wirtz getting on at Anfield?
One would possibly fairly beg the query as to why it’s taken fairly so lengthy for the previous Bundesliga prodigy to get his identify on the scoresheet at Liverpool.
However the actuality stays that Florian Wirtz has been compelled to search out his toes at a staff that’s suffered a really tumultuous 2025/26 marketing campaign.
There was a private tragedy of epic proportions, structural points, set piece deficiencies — the listing goes on!
Regardless of that, one in all our two marquee signings has managed to showcase his elite potential within the well-known purple shirt with excellent likelihood creation numbers.
Gamers
Possibilities created
Possibilities created (per 90)
Bruno Fernandes
51
3.1
Jeremy Doku
36
3.4
Bukayo Saka
34
2.3
Mo Salah
33
2.5
Anton Stach
32
2.3
Jack Grealish
32
2.1
Pedro Neto
32
2.0
Declan Rice
31
1.8
Dominik Szoboszlai
31
1.8
Florian Wirtz
30
2.3
Wirtz is lastly settling in at Liverpool
It’s to Wirtz’s credit score that he taken private accountability for his prior “poor type” at Liverpool.
Nevertheless, it appears clear to us right here at Empire of the Kop that it’s no coincidence that his first aim for the Reds in 23 appearances coincides straight with the membership’s sudden uptick in type.
Arne Slot’s facet seems to be lastly settling. Preferrred timing for a participant who’s shortly changing into used to the tempo and physicality of the Premier League.
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