Manchester Metropolis completely defeated Liverpool on the Etihad Stadium, successful 3-0 in Josep Guardiola’s a thousandth match as supervisor.
With this victory, Metropolis moved into second place within the league, 4 factors behind Arsenal, however Liverpool fell behind their fierce rivals Manchester United and fell to eighth within the league.
Guardiola’s aspect may have received by a a lot wider margin in opposition to Liverpool on the Etihad, and that is simply how impressed they have been with Arne Slott’s aspect.
The issues are rising for Slott and his gamers, who’ve suffered 5 Premier League defeats this season.
Final season they solely misplaced 4 video games within the Premier League, however this season they’ve already misplaced 5 out of 11.
Florian Wirtz faces criticism from Gary Neville
Soccer pundit Gary Neville pointed to Florian Wertz, who “appeared like a boy” in opposition to Man Metropolis.
The Germany worldwide midfielder joined Liverpool in a big-money transfer in the summertime however has up to now didn’t stay as much as expectations.
Neville mentioned on the Gary Neville Podcast: “Wirtz has an issue.
“Let’s simply say it like this. It is an issue. He is a £100m-plus participant and to be truthful I mentioned it just a few weeks in the past, however (Milos) Kerkes appeared like a little bit boy on the market.”
“I assumed Wirtz appeared like a boy in the present day. That may’t be true.”
Neville added:: “We have been creeping round for just a few months that he is younger and coming to a brand new nation, however he is 120 kilos so he has to get again on his ft rapidly.
“He clearly has one thing, he is a very good participant, he is technically nice, however he was harm in the present day by Matheus Nunez and the opposite gamers.
“I used to be actually involved about his efficiency as a result of he was being thrown round on the pitch and he wasn’t delivering by way of high quality.”
Neville continued. “He is a German worldwide of nice standing, however he seems to be fairly brief in comparison with what you’d count on from a top-level bodily recreation within the Premier League.
“They have to get him in control, they have to instill a little bit little bit of tenacity in him and so they’ve acquired to offer him a little bit little bit of one thing which means he begins to get again into form, as a result of what they should do is stick to him and proceed to be persistent.”
Liverpool midfielder nonetheless has supervisor’s backing
Slott is assured Wirths will show himself within the Premier League and regain the shape he as soon as confirmed at Bayer Leverkusen.
The query stays, when does Wirtz intend to do this? The Reds are already eight factors behind Arsenal within the Premier League.
They did not look convincing within the Champions League, regardless of lately defeating Actual Madrid.
Werts has struggled to return to phrases with the tempo and physicality of England’s recreation.
He makes up for his lack of targets and assists along with his work output, however that is not why Liverpool paid a file quantity for the midfielder.
Jamie Carragher has additionally criticized Wirtz’s performances this season. He appears utterly misplaced on the pitch and appears to have misplaced his inventive instincts.
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