The more games that Liverpool plays, the more evident it becomes that this organisation made the right choice in selecting Virgil van Dijk as the team’s new captain. After a very unsuccessful 2022 and early 2023 in the defensive centre, this international football player with the Netherlands national team has made it clear that he intends to be among the best players in the Premier League.
According to the Anything Liverpool account, Van Dijk has started to have defensive records that few players in the current campaign can match after being one of the finest players every weekend within the system that coach Jürgen Klopp has constantly taught him. The Dutch defender has an 80% efficacy rate in winning duels, according to the social network X.
Of all the centre backs that have played in the Premier League in 2023–2024, only Liverpool’s captain and benchmark is reported to have been able to maintain a 0% effective dribble percentage, despite being an extremely tough defender to get past.Above Chelsea’s Levi Colwill, who comes in second position with 72.8%, and Wolverhampton’s Englishman Craig Dawson, who comes in third place with 72.4%, is the name of Virgilk, who leads the defensive components in duels won statistics.
Van Dijk worries a lot about the group.
It’s true that the Reds’ centre defender is the greatest in his position right now, but despite his unparalleled efficacy against opponents, his colleagues do not share the Dutchman’s sense of team cohesiveness. , which is why Klopp must already be working on it. The Reds have only kept two clean sheets in their previous ten games, which worries the captain of Liverpool. The Reds are hurt by specific moves that result in goals against them, as well as lapses of his players from this sector of the field.
