Signs of life finally for Wirtz, but Liverpool still need more from playmaker

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Latest Sky Sports deals or stream PL games with no contract📺 Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Jamie Carragher says it's justified to criticise Florian Wirtz after he has been given so many chances and he must come out of Liverpool's starting line-up. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.

"He's coming in from two very good games, he played very well LASK away, he helped the team a lot in possession, out of possession," was Iraola's assessment of Wirtz's last two performances."I hope we can keep him there. You ask me every day basically about him, we analyse and over scrutinise everything, but when he does well also, it's fair to say." You ask me every day basically about him, we analyse and over scrutinise everything, but when he does well, it's also fair to say The Liverpool boss sounded exasperated he was still being quizzed about Wirtz and of course he would much prefer not to be, but when your big-money No 10 contributed just seven goals and ten assists in 49 games across all competitions in his debut campaign on Merseyside, then he has been in the game long enough to realise the outside noise will not simply go away after a few eye-catching showings.For one thing, it is too small a sample size to start making definitive judgements on the Germany international, while the match conditions in both those encounters undoubtedly suited him coming against a LASK side making their Champions League debut and a Bees team forced to play the whole of the second half with only ten men following Yehor Yarmolyuk's straight red card.

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