Slot: Wolves Win Was "Too Hard" for Liverpool Despite Wirtz Landmark

Liverpool closed out 2025 on a high note with an important 2-1 victory over Wolves at Anfield, but it was not easy. The Reds had to endure nervy moments at the end of the match, similar to the Tottenham game which Arne Slot said was “Too hard”, but in the end, they crossed the finish line with three points. Here is Arne Slot’s verdict on the performance.

Wirtz’s Big Day

Liverpool supporters have been waiting for Florian Wirtz to have a breakout game and this was it. Not only did he have his first goal with the club, but he won 11 duels and created three chances.

“The team has seen how much he did already for us,” Slot said. “Creating chances, being so close to a goal. Everybody that is in to football knows that if you don’t score what is being said about you. All the players know this as well so for him to score his first goal is nice. But it is only a start. With his qualities and he knows best, he will go on and score many more goals than only one for us. But again the focus is always on the results and who scores and has the assists, but I think Florian did more than only scoring a goal today. He was involved in many of our moments where we created chances.”

Win Was “Too Hard”

Even though Slot was pleased with the result, the boss believes that Liverpool are making things too hard on themselves.

“Our wins our still too hard,”  he said “I think throughout the whole season I’ve liked large parts of the games we’ve played. Although there is not one game for any club in this part of the season that is easy. I would like us to win a bit more comfortable than we have done. We do enough things right to make it more comfortable but in this moment of time, this period, we have to fight and in the last five minutes I saw a very good tackle from Conor Bradley for example for us to make sure we get the win over the line after so many times at the start of the season not winning. That is the main part now just to get results and that is what we are doing at the moment.”

Moving Up The Table

Even so, Liverpool are all alone in fourth on the table after 7 straight results, including a trio of victories.

“Happy because in football it is about results,” Slot said. “So many times this season our performances have been good without a result. Today a large part of the game I liked but there were definitely also parts of the games I didn’t like. But the end product of it all, a win, is definitely what I like.”

Injury Update

Conor Bradley and Cody Gakpo returned from injury for Liverpool and there are no fresh injury concerns for the Reds. For the latest information,  check our full Liverpool FC Injury List & Return Dates.