Virgil van Dijk explains how Liverpool have avoided picking up as many injuries as rivals

Liverpool person escaped the important wounded issues the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham person suffered this play and Virgil van Dijk hopes that volition continue

Virgil van Dijk has outlined the reasons down Liverpool's impeccable wounded grounds this play arsenic they alert nether Arne Slot.

Less than 12 months ago, the Reds saw a young broadside assistance them gain Carabao Cup success amid a bid of injuries to the likes of Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold. This term, Slot's broadside are flying precocious astatine the apical of the Premier League, portion the likes of Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham person each seen extended absences for cardinal players.

Van Dijk, who has already played 32 matches for Liverpool this play and has not missed a infinitesimal successful the Premier League, believes the Reds' preparations person been key. The 33-year-old hopes that his broadside tin participate the last against Newcastle adjacent period with a cleaner measure of health.

"You person to bash each the close things," Van Dijk said. "You person to beryllium committed to your craft, bash the close things successful presumption of recovery, nutrition, prime up each the close worldly successful grooming and hole for what’s up of us.

“Obviously past twelvemonth we went into the last we had a batch of injuries truthful hopefully we tin get everyone acceptable and effort to triumph a precise hard game. You person to marque definite that you are acceptable physically, to beryllium aggravated and to beryllium capable to run. It’s a batch of responsibility, it’s portion of our lives and our jobs."

Slot has antecedently paid tribute to Liverpool's wounded record, arsenic part of the crushed his broadside did not participate the transportation model successful January. The Dutchman has been forced to woody with absences to Alisson Becker and Diogo Jota this play but has besides been capable to rotate his broadside connected juncture to assistance their recovery.

Alexander-Arnold however, remains retired injured for the moment. The out-of-contract defender is unavailable for this weekend's FA Cup lucifer against Plymouth Argyle aft needing to beryllium substituted against Bournemouth successful the Premier League.

"That's [Plymouth] going to beryllium excessively aboriginal for him," Slot revealed connected Friday. "Difficult to accidental [about the Merseyside derby]. Like I said before, it's not going to instrumentality months and not adjacent weeks but that's lone 3 days aft the Plymouth Argyle game, truthful let's hold and spot if helium is available.

"We besides person to look astatine the agelong term, of people we don't privation to instrumentality immoderate risks with truthful galore games afterwards coming up. But if he's acceptable past of people we volition usage him."

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