Liverpool s 136 million wasted? The disaster performance of the new players was brought to the World Cup preliminaries! 2 missed opportunities + a ball shortage of 15 games

In a focus match in the fifth round of Group A of the World Cup European Qualifiers that ended on November 15, the German men’s football team defeated underdog Luxembourg 2-0 at home. However, despite the German team's victory, Wirtz, as the core of the team's offense, continued his sluggish performance at the start of the new season.

Despite his poor performance in Liverpool, German coach Nagelsmann still trusted Wirtz very much and continued to let him start, forming an offensive trident with Walter Mader and Sane.

Wiltz got a good opportunity only 8 minutes into the game. At that time, the German team launched a quick counterattack, and his teammates sent a cross to Wirtz in the penalty area. However, Wirtz faced such a close opportunity, but his follow-up push shot was easily saved by the Luxembourg goalkeeper because the angle was too right.

In the 27th minute, Wirtz once again got a good opportunity. After dribbling continuously, he had already avoided the angle, but his inward cut went over the crossbar and flew directly into the stands. This kind of footwork is really embarrassing.

Although the German team scored 2 goals in the second half and defeated the underdog in danger, it had nothing to do with Wirtz. According to post-match statistics, Wirtz shot 4 times and 2 of them were on target, touched the ball 80 times and only had 1 key pass, failed all 5 crosses, failed 2 aerial confrontations, and lost the ball 18 times. Wirtz's dribbling was the only bright spot in this game, with 5 of 6 dribbling attempts being successful.

After failing to score in this game, Wirtz has not scored any goals in the last 15 games representing Liverpool and the German men's national team. The last goal was a free kick in the 3-1 victory over Northern Ireland in the World Cup preliminaries on September 8.

That is to say, Wirtz has not scored a goal for 2 months. Whether playing for Liverpool or Germany in the World Cup qualifiers, Wirtz seemed confused and struggled.

Considering that Liverpool paid 136 million euros in transfer fees for him, Wirtz's performance so far in the new season is indeed unsatisfactory and can even be called a "parallel import".