Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk says he's told Joel Matip to try and score from one of his famous runs a number of times.
Matip's surging runs from deep have become somewhat famous among supporters, but they're also testament to the player's dribbling skill and desire to get forward.
The Cameroon international almost netted from one in Liverpool's 3-0 win over Brentford last Sunday.
Van Dijk has praised his teammate and says it's down to Matip's 'quality' that he's capable of eventually scoring.
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"I'll probably be more happy than he probably would be! [if he scored] I've obviously told him many times that he should try," he told Liverpoolfc.com.
"His dribbling is incredible, the braveness he has to do it and also to keep the ball as close as he can is incredible – that's a quality of his. If that goal happens, then I'll be very happy for him.
"I said to him already, if you believe in yourself, like I believe in him, then it could be going very well for him.
"If you look at the way we play, you need to mix things up. He's got a lot of qualities that I don't have, and the other way around – I've got a lot of qualities that he doesn't have.
"The way he steps in is very helpful when it's difficult to break teams down and give a different dimension on how to break teams down. Obviously sometimes it works and sometimes maybe not, but that's why you try to mix it up.
"We have a fantastic team full of quality, full of different assets that we can use to win games. It's very important to use that as well."
Matip was substituted at half-time during Liverpool's win over Arsenal in the Carabao Cup midweek due to a fitness concern.
“No, Joel was not tactical. My God, how good was Joel,” Jurgen Klopp said on Friday.
“We thought something is not 100 per cent right and you can change five times, it’s not a situation where you ask, ‘What [can we do?]’ – we had Ibou and Joe on the bench, so we just changed. Nothing else.”
