Overview
- Wirtz joined Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer for a reported fee of about €150 million.
- He remains without a competitive goal for the club as he adjusts to the Premier League.
- Used off the bench in a 1–2 defeat at Chelsea, he delivered a deft pass to Mohamed Salah that drew plaudits from the Mirror and the Liverpool Echo.
- Bastian Schweinsteiger and Philipp Lahm urged patience and voiced confidence in Wirtz’s quality in comments reported in Germany.
- Liverpool have relinquished the league lead to Arsenal and, after the international break, will play Manchester United before a Champions League trip to Eintracht Frankfurt.