{"id":935,"date":"2026-10-13T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=935"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:24:02","slug":"steven-gerrard-slams-jamie-carragher-over-comments-about-see-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard slams Jamie Carragher over comments about&#8230; See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has defended Florian Wirtz amid criticism from Jamie Carragher following the Reds\u2019 3-0 defeat to Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz has struggled since his \u00a3116.5m move, recording seven goals and 10 assists in his debut season before managing just one assist in seven appearances this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher believes the 23-year-old should be dropped, arguing that he offers little goal threat. Gerrard agreed that Wirtz must improve but insisted the struggling midfielder needs support from his manager, coaches and senior teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard also suggested a short spell on the bench could help rebuild Wirtz\u2019s confidence, stressing that the German still possesses enormous potential and should not be written off.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool will hope Wirtz can regain his form when they face LASK in the Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has defended Florian Wirtz amid criticism from Jamie Carragher following the Reds\u2019 3-0 defeat to Manchester City. Wirtz has struggled since <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=935\" title=\"Steven Gerrard slams Jamie Carragher over comments about&#8230; See more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mixcollage-31-may-2026-07-43-am-1082.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}