Florian Wirtz won’t be limited to left winger role, insists Arne Slot

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Slot does not want to pigeon-hole the playmaker as a left-sided attacker as he believes that will not play to his strengths. He can play off the left, which he did almost all the time in Leverkusen when Xabi Alonso came and introduced his 3-4-3 system, and before he played as a 10 in a 4-3-3,” said Slot.

“It is more about getting him positions where he is good, rather than be focused on ‘is he a 10, is he an 11, is he an eight?’. “For me, we have reached that level of performance [against Madrid] in other games as well when the playing style of the opponent was compared to that,” said Slot.

“We have lost a few games, much more than we usually do, and now we have won two so our focus is on getting consistent, improving and getting players fit and then we will see where that will lead to. “But at this moment in time definitely not the only focus we have is the league table.”