Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk believes the team have learned important lessons from their title race drop-off last season and knows that even with a five-point lead at the top of the Premier League they cannot afford to write off Manchester City.
Up until March the Reds were in the hunt to win four trophies but, following an FA Cup defeat at Manchester United, their campaign unravelled and a month later their hopes of adding another trophy to the Carabao Cup were all over.
