Two days after Virgil van Dijk and Wataru Endo finished a Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain, paired in the centre of the defence, they were together again. On Tuesday, their attention had been focused on Ousmane Dembele, whose prolific goalscoring return suggests he could be called a fox in the box. On Thursday, their eyes were on another fox and his supporting cast.
“One of my daughters had a play called Fantastic Mr Fox,” said Van Dijk. “So, my daughter was actually the mother of the fox, I think, and I remember the son of Wata was a rat. He did very well.” After that, it was time to help young Jadi van Dijk with her science project.
