It's Florian Wirtz time and Liverpool star can follow team-mate's blueprint for success

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That being said, just about every fixture carries an element of peril and sides like Nottingham Forest under Sean Dyche will have a blueprint laid out for them in terms of how to cause us damage.There's been a lot of talk around Florian Wirtz particularly so far this season and that was always inevitable given his lofty price tag, but the notable absences of his old team-mate Jeremie Frimpong and Alexander Isak have only further put the German in the spotlight.I think he's got to be starting matches now. Liverpool were expecting a bang on Wirtz’s arrival, but it has felt more like a whimper.What is strange is that his story this season has not always been bleak; there have been glimmers of light.

It’s the Premier League fixtures that have caused the discomfort. He has been bullied and brushed off the ball at times, and he has struggled to light up the league with his flare and talent.Wirtz just needs time to adjust, and this adjustment is likely to take longer than fan expectation.

There is a superstar budding; he just needs time to grow in new surroundings.James Noble“We keep going!” The words on Florian Wirtz’s Instagram Story following Liverpool’s defeat at Manchester City struck a pleasingly determined tone.Three assists in 16 club appearances so far this term reflect, to some extent, a start that we’d have all, of course, liked to have been smoother. Such statistics only tend to tell a portion of the story, of course.There has been evident ongoing adaptation to the Premier League’s uniquely pronounced tempo and physicality, within a season where robustness looks to have become additionally prominent.