@BaritoPutra - Bottom line is Liverpool pay a lot of money to van Dijk to keep attackers out of the danger area. Remember also that Two key CBs have been injured and missed lots of games. Matip has just returned to the team.
Ypu. When the title is clenched medio march swap Virgil with one of our other Dutch youngster defenders to learn the trade and only play Virgil in the CL. Do it with Gino too.
They have played more minutes than any other defender or midfielder of Liverpool... If they aren't rested it is time to suspect a German-English plot meant to derail our chances
De Ligt bij Juve gewoon in de basis, in de eerste wedstrijd in het seizoen die er echt toe doet. Al die heisa en speculaties in de afgelopen maanden om niks.— Jurriaan van Wessem (@JurrVanWessem) February 26, 2020 "De Ligt starts, in the first match that really matters. All the speculations for nothing"
Seems that he is playing well so far but Lyon scores the moment he receives treatment off the field...
Well, @wilson00 has a point with Ake as here I found something in his pov: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...int-summer-Mikel-Arteta-plots-revolution.html
Its not only Arsenal,Chelsea,city and united were all linked to him. It will happen in the summer transfer window.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foo...an-Ake-Bournemouth-Tomori-Rudiger-Christensen https://bleacherreport.com/articles...an-ake-bid-reportedly-considered-amid-rumours probably this one has the stats that you were looking for.
Ake with a fine match today. Ended up 2-2 and the defender had some key interventions in the final 20 minutes.
Liverpool have conceded 2+ goals in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time since Virgil Van Dijk joined the club.Klopp's side are in shock. pic.twitter.com/CPjCQLd1mk— Squawka (@Squawka) February 29, 2020 Not good today...
Worst performance I've ever saw from Van Dijk btw & I've seen him at Celtic & Southampton as well. Just shows he's human, everyone can have bad days. This is just one of them (now thankfully rare) occassions where everyone has been off it.— Sean 🎮⚽️ (@VGSean11) February 29, 2020 Indeed the worst game I have ever seen from him.
Might be that he was bothered by the Deolofeu injury. Before that he was strong where cleaned up some errors of others, like TAA. Blocked some shots.
Virgil won 100% of his aerial duels. 90% pass completion, including one key pass. No errors. Next to him Lovren only won 46% of his aerial duels. Made DOZENS of errors leaping out of position and missing balls.Virgil spent the game tidying up his mess.— Ben D'Arcy (@ben_darcy) February 29, 2020 https://www.thisisanfield.com/2020/...lovren-was-distracted-by-wanting-to-fight-me/
He had quite a few (potential) Orange players to watch. Plus the Ajax - AZ match was hours later, so he was able to see both. The defender that for some weeks now pleasantly surprises me, is Malacia (I've been critical about him as he had to learn the job in Feyenoord's first team instead of the Young team as these donot play in the second tier like Young Ajax and Young PSV, so lots of mistakes from him). However he's now learning from his mistakes and his ratings lately have been very good.
Both are similar type of players.offensive minded. Bakker kind of is balanced and could be a future prospect as well.
He was a lot better today. The best of his team for sure. People saying Giroud had the better of him, but that is not true. VvD won the majority of duels.
Watched AZ today. Koopmeiners is deadly on set piece, but I thought the standout player was Owen Wijndal. Scored his first ever Eredivisie goal with a thunderous shot after a very clever run. Played wonderfully throughout the match... showed plenty of attacking power while defending with authority. Pretty much what you want to see from a modern left back. I really think he's the future Oranje LB!! I've been high on him for a while.
Have to say Ake had a solid game vs liverpool even though they lost. Was really in the thick of things defensively and offensively especially in the arieal department. Couldnt have done much on either if the pool goals otherwise a commanding performance from him. Should have scored in the dying stages of game but squared it to wilson who made howler of it which sure shot should have been the equalizer.