Virgil van Dijk on 'never dribbled past' statistic:
“I never started a match by saying to myself: watch out, the record could fall today. I arrived on the pitch wanting to do my job as best as possible…
Nothing more. This statistic has never earned us points or victories.”
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yonijesus
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absoulutely magnefisent
LormelBanks
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I see a lot of people criticizing him because he doesn’t rush to attackers. If you watch him closely many defenders will learn from what he does and only smart and clinical attackers can beat what he does. He slows attackers down until his teammates recovers but it’s just not what he does but how he does it. He’s bigger faster stronger so you have to be very smart to beat him. I’ve watch many games where attackers tries to beat him by going pass him and fails a lot because he has head start if this push the ball before him. I see a lot of other teams fans talking a lot but it’s because of how their defenders rushes to attackers and they are beaten leaving a lot of spaces and threat in-front of goal including my own defense of late with nacho often doing that. Liverpool is one of the teams in Europe with lesser goals conceded and the only premier league team with lesser goals conceded because of this style of defending.
wakakmnrtu
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captain positive mindset.💪 Big Shark 🦈 Virgil