🚨Florian Wirtz played his first game for Liverpool in a behind closed door victory over Stoke City. Here are few things we learnt from the superstar debut
A short thread 🧵
A short thread 🧵
Don’t fix what is not broken so they say as it seems Arne Slot is going to play Wirtz in his favorite position of a roaming 10 who receives mostly in the left half space just like he did in his Leverkusen days. He’s so quick in turning and losing his marker in the left half space
A very underrated part of his game is that the fella is so strong in ground duels due to his low center of gravity he has the muscle to out-power his marker. So Liverpool fans don’t worry Wirtz protects the ball so well and he is good with counter pressing as well
He is lighting quick which makes his ball carries so effective and of course scans while running which makes him know the exactly where defenders are positioned and he can hurt them with a killer pass to his teammate not many no 10s possess that trait in the modern game
One things we should expect to see often next season is Wirtz and Salah operating centrally given we now have fullbacks capable of keeping the width. Just like I explained last month in my Florian Wirtz analysis
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