Florian Wirtz backed to come good for Liverpool after bulking up in gym

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He is not the first one and is not the last one to have to adjust to the Premier League. So many of the best players to ever play here took a while, maybe even longer, to become the star they are now.” Slot believes Wirtz is improving and feels he is better equipped to deal with the physicality of the Premier League now.He added: “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 [Dominik Szoboszlai], he dribbled and a player came to him and he pushed him away and kept on dribbling. It takes a lot of effort for him to play in this intensity, but he is getting used to it.

That is my take.”Slot on Wirtz: ‘It takes a lot of effort for him to play in this intensity, but he is getting used to it’ (Reuters)Four of Wirtz’s Premier League appearances have come as a substitute, with Slot leaving him out for matches against Everton, Chelsea, Manchester United and Aston Villa. Slot said: “He understood completely the two or three games he was on the bench.