Florian Wirtz had a good day at the office on Sunday as he scored and claimed an assist for Alexander Isak as Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 3-1.

Wirtz has been better in recent weeks for the Reds, and he will now head into the international break with the confidence of scoring his first Premier League goal of the season.

Wirtz happy with Liverpool efficiency

Liverpool have been criticised this season for failing to create anything much at all in attack, despite having one of the most expensively assembled forward lines of all time.

That changed to a degree on Sunday, as they fired in three good goals, with Wirtz, Isak and Bradley Barcola all contributing.

A lack of efficiency has plagued Liverpool under Iraola so far, but after the game, Wirtz told Sky Sports that the Reds had changed this in South London.

“It was a good game from us, really happy about the win and that’s all that counts,” said the German. “We were efficient in front of the goal. We didn’t have so many big chances… well, maybe we did, I don’t know, but it felt like we didn’t so scoring three goals is always good. We defended quite well so a good team performance.”

Liverpool scored five minutes before half time through Alexis Mac Allister, and Wirtz admitted that it had been an especially good time for the Argentine to find the net.

“It was really important, also with their disallowed goal,” he said. “It was good momentum for us going into the break. It made the game a bit easier or more open for us. It was a good moment to score.”

On his goal, Wirtz was indebted to Barcola for a superb ball to pick him out, but the No. 7 also highlighted the ball to the Frenchman in the build-up, played by Ronald Araujo.

“It was a great pass to Bradley, into the space,” he said. The manager was talking so much to us to arrive into the box and I think we had three players in there. Luckily the ball came to me and I could score.

“We are always confident because we know what a team we have and what quality we have. It doesn’t matter if it’s away from home but, for sure, we need to get more players in the home games.”