German broadcaster DAZN made the most of their “in-country-access” to Liverpool attacker Florian Wirtz on Wednesday night. Literally seconds after the full time whistle sounded following Eintracht Frankfurt’s 1-5 Champions League defeat to the visiting Reds, Wirtz conducted a German post-match-interview.
A visibly exhausted Wirtz barely had time to process the game. It took him some self-starting to recall that it was his ball loss that ultimately led to Eintracht scoring the 1-0 off a counter in the 26th-minute. That occurrence left the 22-year-old in not much of a mood to discuss his two late assists on the fourth and fifth Liverpool goals.
The two assists count as the first official time Wirtz has gotten on the scoresheet for his new Premier League club. Prior to the tonight, Wirtz had neither scored a goal nor registered an assist through eight EPL and two UCL appearances.
“I’ve never conducted an interview so soon after a match,” Wirtz told DAZN. “If I recall correctly, we were 1-0 down. We got back into it and turned the game around.“
“I tried to get into better spaces during the second half,” Wirtz answered when asked to comment on his own performance. “Especially after I lost the ball [against SGE defender Nathaniel Brown] on the goal against.”
“I know that I can do much better,” Wirtz concluded when asked to sum up his slow start for Liverpool.
Some time after the interview, DAZN commentator Sami Khedira joked that he too had never seen a player forced to conduct a post-match interview.
“Welcome to the new media world!” the 2014 World Cup winner declared with a smile. “Flo doesn’t need to do every post-match interview.“
