{"id":35478,"date":"2025-12-27T21:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/liverpool-player-review-florian-wirtz-stars-as-reds-opening-goal-in-victory-over-wolves\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T21:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:35:33","slug":"liverpool-player-review-florian-wirtz-stars-as-reds-opening-goal-in-victory-over-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/liverpool-player-review-florian-wirtz-stars-as-reds-opening-goal-in-victory-over-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool player review: Florian Wirtz stars as Reds&#8217; opening goal in victory over Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Mac Allister and Florian Wertz celebrate Liverpool&#8217;s win against Wolves (Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool fought their way to a 2-1 win against Wolves in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Reds have not been at their best in recent games, but Arne Slott&#8217;s side are currently on a four-game winning streak and are unbeaten in their last seven games, so at least they are improving.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at today&#8217;s evaluation of Liverpool players. Florian Wirtz was outstanding in the hard-fought home victory against Wolves&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool&#8217;s player ratings after beating Wolves 2-1<\/h2>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Alisson Becker \u2013 7 \u2013 <\/strong>A steady performance from Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson, who was unlucky in the Wolves goal with his first save, led to Santiago Bueno&#8217;s rebound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Jeremy Frimpong \u2013 7.5 <\/strong>\u2013 We finally got to see Frimpong, who was a major attacking threat for Bayer Leverkusen with his brilliant assist for Grafenberg&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Ibrahima Konate \u2013 6 <\/strong>\u2013 Wasn&#8217;t at his best in goal for Wolves, being brought down in the air after having nothing else to do for the majority of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Virgil van Dijk \u2013 6 <\/strong>\u2013 At one point, he was given the ball cheaply and was forced to run away, but he became an important leader for Liverpool as they held on in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Milos Kerkes \u2013 7.5 \u2013 <\/strong>After a slow start, Milos Kerkes started to look much more comfortable in a Liverpool shirt, and today he dominated down the left flank with strong tackling and excellent passing to propel his team forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Ryan Gravenbirch \u2013 7.5 <\/strong>\u2013 It was a brilliant goal to round off a generally good midfield performance for Liverpool. Ryan Gravenbirch is truly LFC&#8217;s Mr. Consistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Curtis Jones \u2013 6 <\/strong>\u2013 A reliable hard worker, but when trying to do more ambitious things he sometimes let Liverpool down with overly cautious passes and some wayward balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Federico Chiesa \u2013 5 <\/strong>\u2013 Arne Slott had an unusual start, but it\u2019s safe to say that Federico Chiesa didn\u2019t make the most of his chance, so he probably won\u2019t be back in the first eleven anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Alexis Mac Allister \u2013 6 <\/strong>\u2013 He is quiet again in midfield, as he has been for some time, lacking the kind of brilliance we have come to associate with him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florian Wirtz celebrates Liverpool&#8217;s goal against Wolves (Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Florian Wirtz \u2013 8.5 <\/strong>\u2013 It wasn\u2019t the toughest of opponents, but they showed a really convincing performance, scoring well. Liverpool fans will be hoping this is the start of more success for Florian Wirtz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Hugo Ekitike \u2013 6 <\/strong>\u2013 Hit the post, but other than that it was a bit of a quiet game and they were unable to continue their recent scoring streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh undefined\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Subs: Connor Bradley \u2013 7, Kodi Gakpo \u2013 N\/A, <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Trey Nyoni \u2013 N\/A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Mac Allister and Florian Wertz celebrate Liverpool&#8217;s win against Wolves (Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images) Liverpool fought their way to a 2-1 win against Wolves in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon. The Reds have not been at their best in recent games, but Arne Slott&#8217;s side are currently on a four-game winning streak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-35478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}