Liverpool have rounded off 2025 with 4 consecutive wins and 7 straight matches unbeaten, however as soon as once more it was removed from easy for Arne Slot’s aspect.
The Premier League champions had been overwhelming favourites towards a Wolves group who’ve collected simply two factors all season, and when Ryan Gravenberch and Florian Wirtz scored inside 90 seconds of one another shortly earlier than half-time, a cushty victory could have been anticipated.
Nonetheless, Santiago Bueno exploired the Reds’ set-piece deficiencies to drag one aim again simply 5 minutes after the interval, and such had been the nerves round Anfield within the closing phases that Ibrahima Konate felt compelled to awaken the followers who’d been rendered eerily quiet.
The Frenchman has been a much-maligned determine for Liverpool this season, and so too has Milos Kerkez (whose performances Gary Neville unflatteringly in comparison with a ’10-year-old’), however the Hungarian left-back gave one among his greatest shows in a crimson shirt at the moment.
Kerkez impressed for Liverpool in win over Wolves
It wasn’t misplaced on Liverpool Echo reporter Ian Doyle, who awarded him 7/10 in his post-match participant rankings and wrote of how the 22-year-old ‘tried to supply an outlet down the left and labored laborious in each instructions’, together with how the group had been ‘roused’ by his second-half ‘willpower’.
The underlying figures from the Hungary worldwide’s efficiency additionally paint a optimistic image. As per Sofascore, he received seven duels, accomplished two out of three dribbles and 69 of his 72 passes (96% success), together with making 4 tackles and 4 clearances.
Kerkez was sturdy defensively and gave the Reds an attacking outlet from the left flank, and he even discovered himself in a good place to threaten the Wolves aim within the first half, however his shot was wayward and flew into the Anfield Street Stand.
He additionally rattled Andre Trindade to the extent that, with the Brazilian already on a yellow card, he was embroiled in a bad-tempered tussle with the Liverpool left-back halfway by means of the second half. Simon Hooper in the end opted for leniency and a closing warning for the Previous Gold midfielder.
The Hungarian has had some robust moments in his first half-season at Anfield, however he can take nice encouragement from his efficiency at the moment, and hopefully there’s loads extra to return from the 22-year-old in a crimson shirt within the subsequent few months and years.
