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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Simon Mullock

Virgil van Dijk responds to Roy Keane criticism in frank admission about Liverpool woes

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.

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