German media still split on Florian Wirtz despite ‘unstoppable’ display

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Wirtz has looked a different player in recent weeks for Liverpool, with fans now hopeful that the 23-year-old has finally turned a corner.However, it was not all sunshine and rainbows for Wirtz despite his contribution to a big win for Jurgen Klopp’s team. Wirtz is getting better but still not perfect Klopp has clearly had a big effect on Wirtz, and Liverpool fans will have been delighted to see him get on the scoresheet again on Friday.

Handing him a rating of 1.5/5 (with 1 being the highest rating and 5 being the lowest), they report that Wirtz is ‘clearly enjoying himself at the moment, and it shows.’ Despite their positivity, not everybody was quite as delighted by Wirtz, with his ratings steadily declining in ratings from Liga Blatt and GOAL Germany. Happily, Wirtz is also said to have made a difference off the ball, something Andoni Iraola will be pleased to hear, and is claimed to have been leading the press and ‘disrupting the opposition’s play.’ Meanwhile, GOAL were more focused on the fact that Wirtz had a ‘dip’ in the second-half, choosing to rate him as a 3/5.

They do praise his alertness to pounce on Kai Havertz’s shot and eventually convert to put Germany 2-0 up in just the 14th minute, and also claim that he was ‘dangerous’ with his shooting from distance – something we certainly haven’t seen at Liverpool – but the drop-off after half-time seems to have hit his rating. For Wirtz, the focus has always been on his lack of output for Liverpool, so, now that he is finally making a difference at the sharp end of the pitch, it is perhaps less of a concern that not everybody is convinced by his overall game.