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Florian Wirtz made his Liverpool debut successful a behind-closed-doors affable connected Sunday and fans person already made their minds up connected their German.
Wirtz became Liverpool's grounds signing successful June, joining successful a £100 cardinal power from Bayer Leverkusen and penning a long-time declaration until 2030.
Liverpool started their pre-season run with a 3-1 triumph implicit Preston, though Wirtz did not feature.
However, helium did marque his bow connected Sunday successful a crippled against Stoke City successful a crippled astatine the AXA Training Centre.
The Premier League champions ran retired 5-0 winners, with Darwin Nunez bagging a hat-trick and Rio Ngumoha and Federico Chiesa besides getting successful connected the act.
Wirtz, wearing the No.58 garment connected a impermanent basis, wowed fans with a scintillating show erstwhile Liverpool yet posted highlights connected their channels.
The German showed his qualities with a driving tally done midfield for the opening goal, scored by Nunez aft Wirtz' walk was lone half-cleared.
He past added an assistance with a astute walk from the borderline of the container for Ngumoha's deflected effort and already Liverpool fans are raving astir their grounds addition.
Highlights - Liverpool 5-0 Stoke pic.twitter.com/JZQm3zMBNX
— N. (@cnsultra) July 20, 2025One instrumentality connected X said: "Wirtz with 2 assists successful his debut."
A 2nd commented: "I don't deliberation the premier league is acceptable for Florian Wirtz. We really signed a generational gem."
A 3rd added: "That Wirtz interaction and strength, takes 3 seconds to realise he’s satellite class."
Another stated: "Wirtz is different level technically."
Florian Wirtz made his archetypal quality for Liverpool connected Sunday. Image: Getty
Arne Slot experiments with Liverpool's prima position
There were plentifulness of absorbing takeaways from a Liverpool perspective, peculiarly the usage of Szoboszlai arsenic a right-back.
The Hungarian, a cardinal midfielder successful Slot's broadside arsenic they won the league past term, started up of Jeremie Frimpong and Conor Bradley successful the backline.
But arsenic the highlights show, Szoboszlai bombed connected from the presumption and whipped successful a glorious transverse for Nunez to marque it 2-0 aft youngster Trey Nyoni picked retired his run.
Liverpool measurement up their preparations for the caller play with a circuit of Asia, wherever they volition instrumentality connected AC Milan and Yokohama F. Marinos.
A 29-man squad has been named by Slot, who has omitted Luis Diaz and Federico Chiesa amid transportation speculation.
