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Charlotte Coates

Jamie Carragher's perfect response after Virgil van Dijk jokes with Gary Neville about former Liverpool defender

Jamie Carragher has responded to Virgil van Dijk's claim that the former Liverpool defender wouldn't get in the current Reds squad.

The former Liverpool defender took to social media to post a picture of the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets for the Reds after 200 matches - with Pepe Reina coming out on top with 102 to Alisson Becker's 90.

Carragher, alongside Daniel Agger and Sami Hyypia, was a key member of the defence that helped the Spaniard achieve that impressive record of clean sheets for the Reds.

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On the most recent episode of the Overlap, Gary Neville asked Van Dijk whether Carragher would get in the current Liverpool side and the captain of the Netherlands responded by saying: "Like the squad or the 11? He wouldn't even make the full squad, the first 20, he would be in the stands!

"You have to really think about it, you have two centre backs playing. Hopefully I'm playing and then Joe Gomez now. Then you have Matip and Konate, [he wouldn't get ahead of them]. He played many, many games for Liverpool but I think the modern day game, Matip and Konate would be ahead of him."

Carragher then posted this picture alongside two emojis:

When asked whether he would join Carragher on 'Monday Night Football', Van Dijk added: “I will rule that out. I’m not going to be a pundit on English television I think. No, (I’m not going to go on Monday Night Football with Jamie Carragher either). No chance!”

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