Virgil van Dijk has warned Liverpool’s title rivals he and his teammates are ‘not glad with simply competing’ following Sunday’s 3-0 thrashing of Manchester United.
The Reds crushed their arch-rivals at Previous Trafford, with Luis Diaz scoring a brace and Mohamed Salah ending the job to punish some dreadful Man Utd errors.
Simply three video games into Arne Slot’s reign, Liverpool are already joint prime of the Premier League desk with most factors, whereas they’ve scored seven targets and are but to concede.
Van Dijk sends warning to Liverpool title rivals
Van Dijk is, after all, a veteran of the Jurgen Klopp period and was a number one determine of their Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and EFL Cup successes beneath the German.
Nonetheless, even with only one yr left on his contract, Van Dijk isn’t achieved but.
In truth, he’s despatched out a conflict cry particularly to the highest two during the last two seasons, Manchester Metropolis and Liverpool, that he and his teammates have their eyes on the prize.
“It’s a proud second. What happy me essentially the most was the efficiency from begin to end,” Van Dijk instructed Sky Sports activities (by way of BBC Sport).
“We need to get pleasure from ourselves on the market and the one approach to do this is with the laborious work we put in. We dominated and may have scored extra. Profitable 3-0 is an enormous enchancment from final yr.
“We needed to keep targeted and we did very properly. I’m very pleased with the boys.
“Joshua Zirkzee performs now as a striker for them however I do know he likes to drop and obtain the ball to his toes. We all know they like to do that passing in behind however we nullified it rapidly. Our recreation plan labored. We stored affected person.
“What Jurgen Klopp stated in certainly one of his final interviews is the brand new supervisor inherited an excellent squad. The supervisor left however the gamers didn’t. We aren’t glad with simply competing.
“We need to obtain greatness this season. I’m not competing in any competitors simply to compete, I need to win. We come up in opposition to an excellent workforce in Man Metropolis and Arsenal. Our consistency is wanting good, after the worldwide break could possibly be attention-grabbing when enjoying each three days. I’m definitely having fun with the journey.”
