Alexander Isak criticised for having a ‘horrible’ season by former Liverpool player, ‘bang average’

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Where do you stand on Florian Wirtz? He is there to score goals after all, and if he delivered that exact same performance every single week for the Reds, nobody at all would be complaining.Nobody, it seems, apart from Nicol, who spoke on ESPN FC this week to claim that Isak was offering nothing at all in terms of hold-up and link-up play and had actually been a poor performer for Liverpool.“Isak’s got four goals in five games.

Normally, if you look at that on a sheet of paper you go ‘that’s alright, that’s what they signed him for, he’s scoring goals.’ But other than those four goals – which I know, it’s really important – he’s been horrible,” he said.READ MORE: Liverpool fans told why Rayan Cherki looks so much better than Florian Wirtz in the Premier League“His hold-up play, his link-up play. Every other facet of his game has just been bang average, but he’s got four in five.”Nicol urges Iraola to drop WirtzAs usual, Nicol has not held back with his opinions on this version of Liverpool.

7.Nicol called for Wirtz to be dropped ahead of the win over Bournemouth, and he has now once again urged Andoni Iraola to take the German out of the team and move Dominik Szoboszlai into a more advanced role.“In order for it to change, the coach has got to change something,” he said. “You’re losing out on that when you’re getting nothing from Wirtz and Szoboszlai is deeper.