Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has admitted that he became worried that he could not return to his dominant old self after suffering the most serious injury of his career.
The towering Dutch international has the opportunity to get his hands on silverware later today, when The Reds face off against Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley stadium.
And the excitement of the occasion is a million miles away from the agony he suffered last season, after rupturing his right anterior cruciate ligament against Everton, which not only ruled him out for the rest of the campaign but left him having to learn to walk again before he could think about returning to Liverpool's first team.
