Liverpool keeper Alisson was sent off for a blatant handball outside his penalty area as the Reds moved 11 points clear at the top of the Premier League with victory over Brighton. Jurgen Klopp’s side were coasting to victory after…
Liverpool dominate Ballon d’Or shortlist with seven names (DailyTrust)
Dutch centre back Virgil van Dijk is one of seven Liverpool players on the 30-man shortlist for this year’s Ballon d’Or, with the Champions League winners dominating the nominations for France Football magazine’s prestigious award. Van Dijk’s club teammates Sadio…
Liverpool ace Virgil van Dijk heaps praise on former Man Utd transfer target Niklas Sule (Metro)
Liverpool ace Virgil van Dijk has hailed former Manchester United transfer target Niklas Sule ahead of Netherlands’ Euro 2020 qualifier against Germany on Friday. Bayern Munich centre back Sule emerged as a target for the Red Devils earlier in the…
Man Utd legend Rio Ferdinand claims Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk did not deserve Champions League award (Metro)
Rio Ferdinand believes Virgil van Dijk is the best centre-half on the planet but he did not deserve to beat Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the Champions League Player of the Season award. Liverpool’s imperious defender played a pivotal…
Virgil Van Dijk reveals Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino is the greatest player he has played with (Metro)
Virgil Van Dijk has picked out Roberto Firmino as the greatest player he has played alongside ahead of his Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah. Firmino has become an integral member of Jurgen Klopp’s attack in recent seasons but…
Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk backs Frank Lampard to cope without Eden Hazard at Chelsea (Metro)
Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk is confident that Chelsea still have the ‘quality players’ to cope without Eden Hazard this season. Hazard, 28, brought an end to his seven-year spell at Chelsea by joining Real Madrid this summer in a…
Liverpool’s Van Dijk named EPL Player of the Season (Nation)
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has been named the Premier League Player of the Season for 2018-19. Van Dijk missed only 35 minutes of the Reds’ 37 matches before the campaign finale on Sunday, helping to register 20 clean sheets…
Liverpool rediscovering fear factor, says Van Dijk (Punch)
Virgil van Dijk believes Liverpool are close to rediscovering the fear factor that made the club such a dominant force for nearly two decades as they target European glory. Between 1973 and 1990 the Reds claimed 11 league titles and…
*Buhari to Ambode: Your performance is satisfactory (Nation) * Illegal miners provide weapons, money for bandits to make Zamfara ungovernable —Lai Mohammed (Punch)
Buhari to Ambode: Your performance is satisfactory (Nation) President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday; he gave the Lagos State governor, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode a pass mark for the audacious projects he has delivered to the people and congratulated him for his…
Virgil Van Dijk names the one reason why Liverpool’s tie with Porto is far from over (Metro)
Liverpool secured a 2-0 win over Porto in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie on Tuesday at Anfield, but they still have work to do to progress to the semis, says Virgil van Dijk. Goals from Naby…
