Florian Wirtz should’ve thought he was about to finish his lengthy look ahead to a primary Liverpool objective halfway via the primary half towards Sunderland tonight, however sadly it wasn’t to be.
The German playmaker was sensational within the Reds’ 2-0 win over West Ham final weekend, however it was his seventeenth look for the membership since his summer time transfer from Bayer Leverkusen with out scoring.
With 24 minutes on the clock towards the Black Cats, the 22-year-old regarded posied to lastly break his duck, however fortune conspired towards him.
Many at Anfield thought Wirtz had scored
After taking part in a one-two with Dominik Szoboszlai, Wirtz raced into the penalty space, earlier than a free contact allowed Granit Xhaka to stretch out a leg and block its path.
The ball ricocheted off Liverpool’s quantity 7 and dropped kindly for him on the sting of the six-yard field, however Robin Roefs acquired out to make the save, with the ball rebounding off the Germany worldwide and rolling into the aspect netting.
As famous by the Liverpool Echo‘s Paul Gorst, most of the house followers noticed the web fluttering and cheered within the mistaken perception that the 22-year-old had opened the scoring, solely to be rapidly muted after noticing the participant’s pissed off response.
Wirtz simply wants some luck to go his means
In soccer, you usually simply want a bit little bit of luck to go your means, and Wirtz hasn’t had that to this point at Anfield.
He thought Woman Luck was about to smile on him when Xhaka’s tried interception dropped properly for him, however when Roefs deflected the ball again onto the German, the ball rolled broad of the upright relatively than into the web.
It was 20 years in the past right this moment that Peter Crouch netted his elusive first objective for Liverpool in a 3-0 win at house to Wigan, and our former striker will empathise with the 22-year-old’s agonising wait to lastly get off the mark.
As soon as Wirtz retains getting himself into threatening positions, we’re positive that objective will arrive for him and lots extra will comply with!
You’ll be able to view Wirtz’s Twenty fourth-minute try under, taken from beIN SPORTS’ match protection and shared through @Media1414506 on X:
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