{"id":125750,"date":"2025-09-07T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125750\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:08:13","slug":"florian-wirtz-start-confirmed-as-julian-nagelsmaan-gives-advice-should-be-smarter-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125750\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz start confirmed as Julian Nagelsmaan gives advice – “should be smarter” – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann has confirmed that Florian Wirtz<\/a> will start against Northern Ireland, while offering Liverpool\u2019s summer signing some advice on gamesmanship. <\/p>\n

Wirtz is a supremely intelligent footballer and boasts such an awareness of his surroundings that you could mistake him for having 360\u00b0 vision.<\/p>\n

An area in which his national team manager thinks he could \u201cbe smarter,\u201d however, is his gamesmanship. <\/p>\n

His comments came after Wirtz was dispossessed in midfield on Thursday evening, which led to Slovakia\u2019s opening goal in their 2-0 win over Germany. <\/p>\n

\u201cFlo is an extremely important player for us. He tried a lot on Thursday and will try again tomorrow (Sunday evening), which means he will play,\u201d Nagelsmann said.<\/p>\n

\"MUNICH,<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t speak to him about that moment, but if I did, I would\u2019ve told him that he should fall to the ground because it was a clear foul. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a regular goal. You should be smarter in the situation and fall, because it was a clear foul.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was unfortunate that we conceded a goal, but we didn\u2019t concede it because Flo argued with a player on the halfway line. There were other reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wirtz\u2019s honesty shouldn\u2019t necessarily be criticised \u2013 it is a refreshing approach given the simulation on show in football in the modern era \u2013 but this doesn\u2019t mean Nagelsmann should be ignored. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

With a few exceptions, Liverpool are a team that have often been noted for not being as in touch with their dark arts as they perhaps could, when appropriate.<\/p>\n

Arne Slot<\/a> has actually mentioned Wirtz before, too, when speaking about his side\u2019s honest attitude to the game. <\/p>\n

He said<\/a> before the start of the season: \u201cIf there is one team in the league that is, in my opinion, the most honest when we play \u2013 I sometimes blame them that they never try to make from a foul a little bit more \u2013 and never dives and never time delays and all these kind of things, then it is us. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the [Community Shield] game against Palace, they held Florian in midfield and he didn\u2019t fall over and the referee says, \u2018If you don\u2019t fall, I don\u2019t give a free-kick\u2019, which is a little bit weird. <\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, a fraction later, they fell down in a moment which wasn\u2019t even a foul and the referee thought, \u2018Oh, he fell down so it probably is a foul\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had much more ball possession than Palace but we made 13 fouls and they made five. That tells you also about who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

While we can be proud of Liverpool\u2019s approach to football, there is a time and a place to show some chicanery in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann has confirmed that Florian Wirtz will start against Northern Ireland, while offering Liverpool\u2019s summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-125750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}