Wirtz will go in search of his elusive first Liverpool goal when his side lock horns with rock-bottom Wolves at Anfield on Saturday afternoon.

Opening up about how the dressing room are trying to help Wirtz adapt to the demands of the Premier League, Liverpool boss Slot said before the win over Tottenham last weekend: “I hope I made it clear that I am talking not just about the new players (who have needed to adapt) but players in general, Florian has improved a lot. I am not talking about his ability on the ball because we could see from the start that that was top. 

“But I saw in one moment against Brighton where he took the ball off Dom (Szoboszlai), he dribbled and a player came to him and he pushed him away and kept on dribbling. Then he provided a cut back cross for Hugo [Ekitike] who shot over the bar. Later he won the duel with (Brighton’s) Jan Paul van Hecke that led to the counter attack with the shot from Mo (Salah).

“In those moments you see it gets easier for him. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of effort for him to play in this intensity but he is getting used to it. That is my take. Both (fitness and weight work). A lot of them have grown in kilograms, in muscle. That’s one thing. And secondly, if you are only in the gym you cannot be prepared for 90 minutes of Premier League football. It is about playing those games, I would say training but we hardly ever do that, so it’s playing, playing, playing.”