Virgil van Dijk leaves Netherlands squad and returns to Liverpool 'on medical grounds'

Dutch skipper Van Dijk, on with Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong, person some been allowed to instrumentality to their clubs aft starting successful Saturday's 4-0 triumph implicit Hungary successful Amsterdam

Virgil van Dijk has near the Netherlands squad and volition instrumentality to Liverpool up of a important play for the Premier League leaders.

Dutch skipper Van Dijk, on with Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong, person some been allowed to instrumentality to their clubs aft starting successful Saturday's 4-0 triumph implicit Hungary successful Amsterdam, with Van Dijk playing the afloat 90 minutes.

Neither subordinate is injured, with the Dutch FA saying the determination has been taken to remainder them for Tuesday's clash with Bosnia successful Zenica aft the Oranje secured qualification for quarter-finals of the Nations League.

Manager Ronald Koeman said: “For some Frenkie and Virgil it is amended for them to permission the grooming campy astatine this moment. That determination was taken connected aesculapian grounds, with of people the involvement of the players coming first."

Van Dijk wil caput backmost to Merseyside and bask a remainder anterior to Sunday's travel to his erstwhile nine Southampton successful the Premier League, earlier Liverpool's mouthwatering back-to-back Anfield clashes with Real Madrid and Manchester City, with those games followed by crunch trips to Newcastle and Everton.

The Reds spell into a important play of their play 5 points wide astatine the apical of the Premier League and apical of the Champions League array aft 4 wins from 4 matches.

The Liverpool skipper has played successful each infinitesimal of the Reds' Premier League and Champions League campaigns this season, with Arne Slot lone resting him for the Carabao Cup wins implicit West Ham and Brighton.

Speaking aft the triumph implicit Hungary, Van Dijk said: "I privation to bash my thing, play my champion crippled ever and beryllium important for the radical each clip I'm connected and disconnected the pitch. I privation to lend 1 100 percent to that each day.

"We're inactive growing, I think. There are phases successful matches successful which things are going precise well, particularly successful possession. But determination are besides moments successful the modulation wherever we tin beryllium amended defensively by reasoning a small much defensively and playing much compactly.

"It's conscionable not easy, due to the fact that you're utilized to antithetic things astatine your club. Then it takes immoderate getting utilized to here. At the extremity of the day, it's each astir the result. And 4-0 successful an important crippled is conscionable truly good."

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