Wirtz delivered two assists in four minutes, setting up Szoboszlai and Gakpo, and the entire attack suddenly looked electric. The movement was sharper, the pressing tighter, and the transitions more fluid. Liverpool played with a kind of freedom and unpredictability that’s been missing for a while.
It wasn’t just Wirtz’s end product, it was his intelligence. He drifted inside to overload the midfield, linked beautifully with Mac Allister and Szoboszlai, and gave Gakpo constant service. You could feel the chemistry clicking in real time.
Meanwhile, Salah, still the club’s most iconic figure of the modern era, sat watching from the bench. Slot’s decision will definitely raise eyebrows, but it also sparks a bigger question.
Has the post-Salah era quietly begun at Anfield?
Is this just rotation to keep Salah fresh, or is Slot genuinely reimagining Liverpool’s front line without him? And if Wirtz keeps producing like this, does Salah automatically walk back into the XI, or are we seeing the first real evolution of the post-Klopp, post-Salah Liverpool?
