Virgil van Dijk’s job in matches is to maintain attackers away from the Liverpool objective and he does that higher than most on the earth. He has been an absolute rock on the again as Liverpool have smashed the competition to romp to their first league title in 30 years. Regardless of his huge body, the Dutchman isn’t any slouch with the ball at his ft. He has clocked practically three,000 passes, offered an help and scored 4 targets within the 2019/20 Premier League season. Fellow Liverpool defender Joe Gomez received a style of Van Dijk’s silky-smooth expertise when he was nutmegged in coaching.
Rubbing salt into Gomez’s wounds, Van Dijk adopted the nutmeg with an excellent celebration.
The Liverpool defender has been immense in his crew’s title-winning season. Whereas the likes of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane have run riot within the attacking half, Van Dijk has made certain that Liverpool have been stable on the again.
The 29-year-old a complete of 23 profitable tackles this season, two of them final man tackles. He has a deal with success charge of 52 per cent, made 39 interceptions, 158 clearances (one off the road), 197 recoveries and gained 223 duels — shedding simply 74.
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Extremely, the Dutchman has made simply 14 fouls, earned only one yellow card and no crimson playing cards.
Liverpool have had an unbelievable season and are nonetheless in with an opportunity to interrupt Manchester City’s record points haul of 100 two seasons in the past, however might want to win all three of their remaining matches in opposition to Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle United.
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