{"id":236872,"date":"2025-09-18T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236872\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:28:11","slug":"florian-wirtz-is-just-getting-started-jeremie-frimpong-and-arne-slot-explain-why-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236872\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz is “just getting started” – Jeremie Frimpong and Arne Slot explain why – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florian Wirtz<\/a> produced his best performance yet in a Liverpool shirt during the 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid, with Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> saying \u201che\u2019s just getting started.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Due to his \u00a3116 million price tag, Wirtz has begun to attract scrutiny over his form in these early weeks of the season.<\/p>\n

But the Germany international is visibly improving and Wednesday\u2019s Champions League<\/a> victory over Atletico was arguably his most accomplished display yet.<\/p>\n

Per FotMob<\/a>, no player created more chances than Wirtz (five), who also had the most touches of the ball in the opposition box (eight).<\/p>\n

Speaking to All Red Video<\/a> after the game, the playmaker\u2019s close friend and long-time teammate Frimpong insisted there is a lot more to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just getting started, you know?\u201d the right-back said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I\u2019ve been with him for four years in Leverkusen, so I know what he can do. I\u2019m seeing that it\u2019s coming, there\u2019s a lot more to see from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Wirtz was a major focus in Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s post-match press conference, too, with the head coach explaining the adjustment period his new No. 7 is facing \u2013 having gone through similar this time last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was indeed a few times close to scoring a goal, he was also a few times close to assisting a goal,\u201d Slot told reporters at Anfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he was the one who created the most chances for us today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see with him as well also that he\u2019s getting fitter and fitter and adjusting more and more to us, which is normal, you need a bit of time to adjust.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know how much quality he has, but sometimes people forget that he\u2019s a 22-year-old that comes for the first time abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year I came when I was 46 and it was my first time that I started working abroad, the first two or three months your whole life is changing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wirtz\u2019s whole life is changing\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the things which are normal to you are not normal anymore, because the roads here are different, everything is different. That sometimes costs energy as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cCombine that with going to a new club, new playing style. In Leverkusen they played 3-4-3, we play 4-3-3, so we ask a bit more from him off the ball defensively maybe as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I can see him growing, growing, growing, more and more and more, and I think that is what you can expect from a quality player. They always adjust to what they need.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe and the team will get better and better, but I liked his performance today a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz produced his best performance yet in a Liverpool shirt during the 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[4426,6069,24937,2366,2368,127119,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-236872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-florian-wirtz","12":"tag-jeremie-frimpong","13":"tag-liverpool-vs-atletico-madrid","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115226483764658442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}