Virgil van Dijk will go from facing Kylian Mbappe to Erling Haaland this Sunday, but he had another opponent in mind. Stood on the Anfield pitch, fresh from beating Real Madrid, with a similarly seismic clash against Manchester City next, the Liverpool captain raised the subject of title rivals.
“You can see at the moment Arsenal are flying, and it is down to clean sheets and not conceding chances,” he said. Which didn’t seem to be Liverpool’s ethos when they were hurtling their way through action-packed games, relying on late goals and brinkmanship, taking and losing leads until they found themselves losing matches.
