Off Topic Virgil van Dijk !

Prefer the Odyssey

 

Prefer Octopussy.

 

Van Dijk wins PFA Player of the Month award


Virgil van Dijk has been named the PFA Player of the Month for November.


Liverpool's No.4 beat off competition from Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane, Aaron Mooy of Huddersfield Town and Manchester City trio Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling and David Silva to land the award.

Van Dijk made five appearances for Liverpool during November, helping the team to keep clean sheets in the wins over Fulham and Watford.
https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/327733-virgil-van-dijk-pfa-player-of-the-month

 

Love it

 

Prefer for your eyes only

Not yours ffs biscan lol

 

50 games already...

 

Five telling stats from Van Dijk's first 50 Liverpool games
Chris Shaw @__ChrisShaw

Virgil van Dijk celebrated his 50th game for Liverpool by achieving one of his favourite things: a clean sheet.


The Netherlands captain reached the appearance landmark last weekend, a little over a year after completing his move to the Reds from Southampton.

And what an impressive run it has been for Van Dijk on a personal level, the Liverpool defence as a unit, and Jürgen Klopp’s team as a collective.

The No.4’s influence on the side is plain to see – but digging into the numbers behind his half-century paints an even more telling picture of his impact at Anfield so far.

With help from Opta, here are five of the most eye-catching statistics from Van Dijk’s first 50 matches for the club…

24 clean sheets

Saturday’s shutout at Brighton and Hove Albion was the 24th recorded by the Reds with Van Dijk in the team, meaning the Dutchman’s ratio since joining the club is almost one in two.

Surprisingly, it didn’t quite start that way for the towering defender.

While Van Dijk began his Liverpool career in fairy tale fashion with a winner at the Kop end in a Merseyside derby, he had to wait until his fifth game to chalk up a clean sheet – against his former club, Saints.

But, since then, they have become second nature, particularly in the current season, when there have been 13 in 22 Premier League fixtures to date to help the Reds control top spot.

“I love clean sheets,” he remarked earlier this term. You can tell.

33 wins

Liverpool’s formidable defensive platform – just 10 goals conceded in the Premier League so far this season – has been pivotal to a significantly higher win rate in 2018-19.

Klopp’s men have been victorious 18 times in 22 league matches, with Van Dijk involved for all but 35 minutes of the campaign, providing a reliable presence as injuries have affected several of his defensive colleagues.



Player Stats — Virgil van Dijk

• General
• Attack
• Defence
• Distribution
• Discipline

• General
  Games Played
  22
  Minutes Played
  1,945
  Starts
  22
  Interceptions
  25
  Substitution On
  0
  Substitution Off
  1
  Duels Won
  75.4%
  75.4%
  Aerial duels won
  74.6%
  74.6%

Overall, the No.4 has won 33 of his 50 Reds outings in all competitions – including a dozen Champions League appearances – with seven draws and 10 defeats.

71.69 per cent duel success

No outfield Liverpool player can better Van Dijk’s success percentage in duels in his 50 games so far, the 27-year-old having won 71.69 per cent of the 445 he has contested.

In the same period, he also leads the team for clearances (272), interceptions (59) and blocks (21).






“He has outstanding potential,” said Klopp last week. “He is a fantastic person, he is physically strong and has all the technical things you need as a centre-half.

“So many things were already good and many things he can still improve. That’s the situation.”

• Klopp and Van Dijk win Premier League awards for December

3,643 passes

The Reds’ tendency to command the largest share of possession in the majority of their games means Van Dijk sees plenty of the ball each time he features.

Indeed, in the period of his first 50 appearances, no Liverpool player attempted more passes than his 3,643 – of which 88.64 per cent were accurate.

Just last Saturday at Brighton, for example, he clocked up 131 passes to keep the league leaders on the front foot in the search for – and, later, defence of – the decisive strike from Mohamed Salah.

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Fortress Anfield for 918 minutes

Klopp’s side established the club’s second-longest run ever without conceding a league goal at Anfield during 2018.

There were 918 minutes between the respective consolation efforts from Michail Antonio for West Ham United in February and Callum Paterson for Cardiff City in October.

The constant presence in that group effort was Van Dijk, who was the only member of the back five to start each of the games that made up the run.

• Virhttps://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/334097-stats-virgil-van-dijk-liverpool-50-gamesgil van Dijk's first LFC year in his own words

 

Best centre back in the world

 

I think he probably is

 

Hard to argue against it. Certainly in the Prem couldn’t name anyone better.

In Europe? Hard to say as we don’t see a lot of them every week. Ramos probably still considered by many but I don’t think I’d swap him for any other CB in world football

 

the fact is Virgil Van Dijk may well be the greatest CB in the solar system right now

 

Premier League Player of the Year

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Premier League Player of the Year
Sergio Aguero

20%
Virgil van Dijk

48%
Fernandinho

8%
Eden Hazard

4%
Ruben Neves

4%
Heung-Min Son

13%
Raheem Sterling

3%
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I wouldnt be picking it yet.

I think someone is going to step up now and so the LEAGUE for thier team

 

Lfc win the league VVD
city win the league Fernandinho

both been crucial to their sides this year and without either, both clubs wouldn’t be as good as they have been.

 

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with the late push

 

Naby keita is coming good also at the crucial time.

 

Good guesses.

IMO the actual key players thats going to make the difference for LFC is...... Roberto Firmino. Bit of sun on his back lads, starting linking the whole thing up... salah will be on 35 goals by end of the back of his work.



That or ageuro is going to fire city to glory... one or the other.

 

Anyone who thinks Ramos is the best or ever was the best needs examining IMO.

World class leader, world class footballer, scored important goals but he was only ‘good’ defensively.

 

He's just a Spanish Phil Jones