Virgil van Dijk fires stress warning to Liverpool over Premier League title race
Virgil van Dijk has backed his Liverpool teammates to resist the stress that comes with setting the tempo in a Premier League title race.
The Reds at the moment boast a seven-point benefit over second-placed Arsenal with 13 video games to go – a lead they secured after holding on to a nervy 2-1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers on the weekend.
Whereas Van Dijk accepted the rising anxiousness, in direction of which the last-minute equaliser in opposition to Everton will certainly have contributed, is a pure consequence to being out in entrance, he assured followers the squad is robust sufficient to get the job accomplished.
“We’re all human beings and I completely perceive anxiousness or nervousness can kick in,” he mirrored. “I stated it weeks in the past, we simply need to buckle up, benefit from the journey. There can be a number of twists and turns.
“For those who’re not prepared for it, it will likely be a troublesome couple of months for you however I really feel like we as a workforce are prepared for it. We’ll give it all the pieces we have got and we are going to see in 13 video games if that’s sufficient.”
Van Dijk was a part of the facet which got here out on high within the 2019/20 title race, however that got here 12 months after Liverpool gave up a big lead for Manchester Metropolis to safe the trophy.
With extra expertise of those conditions than most within the squad, Van Dijk provided some phrases of knowledge to his teammates.
“I do not know the way others would assume, I can solely say what I feel and what I inform the boys to do as a result of I have been by way of this entire scenario and are available up brief as properly twice,” he stated. “Now we have to place all our power in solely ourselves and that’s arduous sufficient already – you noticed how Wolves made it troublesome for us and on Wednesday it will likely be very troublesome once more.
“For those who deal with different issues or have a look at others it’s only going to backfire so we maintain going. Sure gamers in our workforce would possibly watch different groups however it isn’t going that can assist you. I feel that was additionally the mentality the season we received it: we stored going, stored going and we discovered a approach.”
