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florian wertz According to German World Cup winner Benedict Hovedges, Liverpool are “too good to fail”.
The £100million man has yet to score For Liverpool in 21 matches following a club-record transfer from Bayer Leverkusen.
And while Wirtz has two assists in the Champions League and one in the Community Shield, he is yet to make a single Premier League Target. liverpool manager Arne Slott He was left out of the starting eleven for big matches against Everton, Chelsea, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Inter Milan.
But Hovdes, the left-back in Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning team, is confident Wirtz will be successful at Anfield.
“I would say he has a lot of quality, he has a very good mentality and he will show how good he can be,” the former Schalke and Juventus defender said. “I’m absolutely sure he will show that at Liverpool in the second half of the season because he is too good to fail.”
Wirtz won the 2023–24 Bundesliga Player of the Year award as Bayer Leverkusen became champions of Germany for the first time in their history.
And Hovdes added: “Florian Wirtz was playing an excellent role at Leverkusen. He was not just a player, he was Player, and he made a lot of fun of last season in the Bundesliga.
“I was a little surprised that he was not at his best from the beginning [at Liverpool] But he is still young, he is a young player, he is changing countries, changing clubs for the first time in his life.
“He doesn’t have his family or his friends to give him full support, he doesn’t have players who know what he is fully capable of and maybe he doesn’t feel full trust from the supporters, the club, the manager, everyone. Everyone at Leverkusen trusts him completely and now he has to improve himself step by step at Liverpool.
“But I am sure he will perform better in the second half of the season and when you look at it for the national team, we have to get him back to his best to create something special in the World Cup.”