14 Oct 2026
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14 Oct 2026 18:50:53
. and your point is??
14 Oct 2026 19:10:52
I was going to ask that delves.
14 Oct 2026 20:12:28
Florians foot did not make any contact with the city player, it landed on the pitch, that is a picture that has been well manipulated/frame enhanced to make it look like a red card, that would have been on Sky before the match finished, was not even shown, not even in one newspaper yesterday you have been scammed Suarez by the cheats!
Fancy falling for the old one-two?
YNWA Andoni.
14 Oct 2026 20:26:17
The frame above was captured by me from a recording of the full match. There has been zero manipulation.
My point, Delecs, is that, much like my father, Wirtz never (really) pulled out.
14 Oct 2026 20:47:36
@suarez,
you need to be Gary Neville's Sky partner, still not shown by Sky on the day, or this week because of "zero" contact with hans christian anderson!
I would not reveal anything that shows my LFC team in a bad way ever, and more to the point supports a load of cheats instead!
YNWA Andoni.
14 Oct 2026 21:32:54
I can see what you're saying Chewy, but I'm just looking at the body language Wirtz is not all in on that duel. He's not trying to get over or around the ball, he knows Anderson is coming in hot and he knows it's going to hurt.
I desperately want the lad to succeed, but I that 50/50 really left a sour taste in my mouth. Not necessarily because of the outcome, but more the attitude. We need to be winning those 50/50s, ideally at a rate higher than 50%. I applaud the running he does for the team, and he really does do create more opportunities than people credit him for, I just worry that we're at a point in the Premier League where it is necessary, not just a bonus, that your players are fully committed, and generally able to winning these marginal duels.
14 Oct 2026 21:40:34
007, you've got it all wrong, pal. It's my fault, though; I didn't give context earlier, as I was distracted with the football. It's not intended to show Wirtz in a bad light at all, the kid made a fair attempt to win the ball. I saw a fair few people whinging that he pulled out of the tackle, calling him a disgrace, saying he should be sold off the back of that alone etc. So I just thought I'd post it in reponse.
Wirtz challenged for the ball, but not in the way some would have liked him to, he tried to knick it as opposed to commit to a crunching tackle that might have seen him injured. And looking at the picture above, if you put Wirtz's ankle between Anderson's foot and the ball, he's not coming away unscathed. The manner in which Wirtz has tried to win the ball is exactly the type of tackle you would expect him to make, he's not the next Mascherano.
Last season, Wirtz won 95% of his tackles, compared to 85% this season and a 60% success rate in ground duels. In contrast, Anderson's tackle success rate was just 65% last season, though he still led the league with 297 duels won. It doesn't mean Wirtz is a better tackler, it means he's intelligent about when and where he tries to win the ball, he knows his limits and doesn't overcommit. Anderson on the other hand, doesn't mind overcommitting at all. Florian knows that, and he'd rather keep his ankles in one piece.
My point being, it's stupid for people to be expecting Wirtz to win a 50/50 against an aggressive high-volume tackler who's literally the best in the league at winning duels. Never judge a fish by how it climbs a tree. Shoutout Einstein.
14 Oct 2026 21:48:43
Chewy where you getting Wirtz tackle stats from mate?
Those stats put Wirtz as the top tackle winner percentage wise by a country mile.
Apparently James Tarkowski (Everton): 81.8% is the leading tackle percentage winner this season in the PL.
Any player that wins 95% of their tackles would be a unicorn.
15 Oct 2026 11:04:13
Good shout JK, I googled it and it said last season he made 26 out of 28 tackles, I never trust Google, but it cited FBRef so I took a quick look at Florians page and confirmed that it does list 26 tackles won, so I wrongly assumed it was the correct %, turns out FBRef doesn't list attempted tackles for Wirtz, a little more digging tells me Google used an OddAlerts listing that shows Wirtz in the top 6% (94th percentile) for career ball recoveries and just decided that this was the same as winning 94% of tackles last season, which seems to be where it got 28 attempted tackles from.
His actual tackles won in the PL last season was about 75%, apparently 26 of 34, but I had to check numbers from multiple sites, some conflicting, some not listing attempts at all, and now I don't trust any of them tbh!
The only thing I can confirm for certain is that Wirtz is not a unicorn, but I don't have the credentials to certify that!
15 Oct 2026 11:30:52
Chewy i wasn't trying to be awkward with my reply mate but i'm actually a little bit of a geek when it comes to stats and was actually wondering if you had unearthed a site i was unnaware of mate.