Virgil van Dijk makes bold Liverpool promise and vows Reds history will not repeat itself

Liverpool person reached the Carabao Cup final, are apical of the Premier League, done to the last-16 of the Champions League and look Plymouth Argyle successful the FA Cup connected Sunday

Virgil van Dijk has promised Liverpool volition larn from past season’s “disappointment” to marque definite they bash not autumn abbreviated successful the hunt for trophies.

Liverpool are inactive successful the premix for a historical quadruple arsenic they are six points wide successful the rubric race, they person reached adjacent month’s Carabao Cup final, look an FA Cup necktie astatine Plymouth connected Sunday are qualified for the past 16 of the Champions League.

But van Dijk warned they were successful a akin concern astatine the aforesaid signifier past play erstwhile they won the Carabao Cup last for a grounds tenth time - and yet that ended up arsenic their lone portion of silverware. They fell distant successful the rubric contention and ended up down Arsenal and champions Manchester City who finished 9 points wide of Liverpool.

Liverpool besides crashed retired of the FA Cup astatine the 4th last signifier to Manchester United and were knocked retired of the Europa League by Atalanta arsenic the fixture database and injuries caught up with them.

It is thing that inactive haunts Van Dijk who insisted the full squad indispensable larn lessons from past play if they privation to advancement and instrumentality vantage of their presumption now.

Holland defender Van Dijk said: “Everyone has much acquisition from past twelvemonth truthful evidently the extremity of past play was a small disappointing truthful erstwhile there’s disappointment you person to crook it into acquisition for the adjacent season.

“If you don’t bash that, past you don’t progress. But what I’m seeing present is the players are doing the close things successful bid to flooded what happened past year.

“There’s nary guarantees of people but that’s the basal and, let’s see, let’s spot what it brings. But we besides person to bask the ride, absorption connected ourselves and don’t perceive to others, don’t get dragged into different conversations, conscionable effort to triumph immoderate the adjacent crippled up of us.”

Jurgen Klopp had already announced his volition to discontinue by this clip past year. It was expected to animate Liverpool to permission their departing manager with a raft of silverware.

It did not enactment retired similar that adjacent if they did triumph the Carabao Cup last against Chelsea. They were opening to consciousness the wounded database by the clip they won astatine Wembley and past the squad was tested to the limit.

So, van Dijk was alternatively dismissive erstwhile asked whether it helps to triumph the archetypal trophy of the season. “I don’t cognize due to the fact that past twelvemonth it didn’t help!” said van Dijk.

“Listen, you effort to triumph each and each crippled truthful hopefully it volition beryllium different. But you saw past twelvemonth that we couldn’t get the occupation done and the different 2 were overmuch amended successful the end. But we’ve enactment ourselves successful a bully position, physically, mentally, points-wise up of the games that we have. But we should not get carried distant and that’s what we person to do.

“We were successful each competitions astir this clip arsenic good so, listen, it’s a caller authorities and the manager is doing immoderate things otherwise to Jurgen. What Jurgen did was precise palmy and hopefully what this manager does and implements for america volition beryllium palmy arsenic well.

“We’ve enactment ourselves successful a precise bully position. But it’s February I’m decidedly not reasoning astir what could beryllium there, either aft March 16 oregon the extremity of May. We conscionable person to absorption connected the adjacent one, the adjacent 1 and past we’ll see.”

Slot is moving miracles successful his archetypal play astatine Anfield. One of the astir eye-catching parts of his absorption is the mode helium is getting the champion from his squad. While the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham are suffering from devastating wounded lists, Liverpool are resting and rotating to perfection.

When Spurs brag Ange Postecoglou talks astir injuries being astir atrocious luck, that does a disservice to the sports subject successful each of this. Fatigued players get much injuries. The creation is to remainder players and besides not propulsion them excessively hard successful training.

Years ago, managers utilized to get questioned erstwhile players got injuries from being successful the reddish zone. Now it is conscionable accepted. And that is wherefore Slot is benefitting from his clever management.

Van Dijk added: “You person to bash each the close things. 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.”

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