Virgil Van Dijk doesn’t need the critics to tell him that his form hasn’t been good enough.
But after a week which saw the Liverpool defender return to his humble roots in Holland , the 31-year-old admitted that the challenge is to show he is not a spent force.
Van Dijk took time out from international duty to return to his hometown of Breda for the official opening of a Johan Cruyff football court on the housing estate when he spent his formative years and next to the Olympia Catholic School he attended as a boy.