{"id":146301,"date":"2025-11-18T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146301\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:44:08","slug":"florian-wirtz-will-be-a-success-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146301\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz will be a success in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday night, Florian Wirtz showed why Liverpool made him their first \u00a3100m+ signing<\/a> when acquiring him from Bayer Leverkusen in June.<\/p>\n

The playmaker hasn\u2019t had the most auspicious of starts to his time at Anfield, with 16 appearances so far yielding no goals and only three assists<\/a>, and Gary Neville melodramatically claimed that the 22-year-old \u2018looks like a little boy<\/a>\u2018 up against more physical Premier League opponents.<\/p>\n

However, it hasn\u2019t been for a want of trying from the Reds\u2019 number 7, who put in an outstanding performance in the win over Real Madrid a fortnight ago, and he ran the show for Germany last night as his nation secured their place at next summer\u2019s World Cup with a 6-0 drubbing of Slovakia.<\/p>\n

James Pearce hails \u2018special player\u2019 Wirtz<\/p>\n

Wirtz provided two quickfire assists for Leroy Sane<\/a> in the closing stages of the first half in Leipzig, with the first of those coming from an exquisite floated ball from inside his own half to the edge of the visitors\u2019 penalty area.<\/p>\n

The Athletic\u2019s Liverpool correspondent James Pearce took to X<\/a> during the match with a glowing appraisal of the playmaker as he gushed: \u2018Special player Wirtz. Difficult start to his LFC career but so gifted. It\u2019s a case of when not if he lights up the Premier League.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Florian(Photo by Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty Images)Wirtz has the talent to become an unqualified success at Liverpool<\/p>\n

Admittedly with the caveat that he won\u2019t face oppositition of Slovakia\u2019s paucity too often this season, Wirtz showed on Monday that he\u2019s an outrageously talented player.<\/p>\n

In addition to his pair of assists for Sane, the 22-year-old completed 94% of his passes, won three duels, created three \u2018big chances\u2019 and played no fewer than six key passes in a masterclass display at the Red Bull Arena (Sofascore<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That came with the Liverpool star operating on the left wing, where Arne Slot has deployed him in recent matches to accommodate the excellent Dominik Szoboszlai in the number 10 role, and it\u2019s likely that the Reds boss will stick with that setup for now.<\/p>\n

Last month, the LFC head coach referenced how Kevin De Bruyne wasn\u2019t an overnight success<\/a> when he came to the Premier League but went on to become a legend in the division, and Wirtz is more than capable of doing the same during his time in England.<\/p>\n

Our number 7 could do with getting a few more goals and assists on the board quickly to dispel his critics, but from what we saw in Germany\u2019s win last night, there\u2019s a world-class footballer in there who\u2019s just waiting to explode in the English top flight.<\/p>\n

You can watch Slot\u2019s full post-Man City press conference via\u00a0Empire of the Kop<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday night, Florian Wirtz showed why Liverpool made him their first \u00a3100m+ signing when acquiring him from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-146301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}