{"id":25082,"date":"2025-01-15T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/liverpool-skipper-virgil-van-dijk-believes-arne-slots-side-have-not-lost-their-premier-league-form\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:14:07","slug":"liverpool-skipper-virgil-van-dijk-believes-arne-slots-side-have-not-lost-their-premier-league-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/liverpool-skipper-virgil-van-dijk-believes-arne-slots-side-have-not-lost-their-premier-league-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Skipper Virgil van Dijk believes Arne Slots&#8217; side have not lost their Premier League form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Captain Virgil Van Dijk dismissed any fears Liverpool have stumbled in their title bid. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diogo Jota&#8217;s equaliser, just 22 seconds after the substitute came on, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz7ew42qlzyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">earned a point at Nottingham Forest on Tuesday. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arne Slot&#8217;s side have won three of their last seven Premier League games but still have a six-point lead over second placed Forest before Arsenal play Tottenham on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also lost their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg to Tottenham 1-0 last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ooh, so we are in a crisis now?&#8221; joked Netherlands international Van Dijk, when Liverpool&#8217;s form was put to him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It only confirms the Premier League is a very tough league where you play against opponents who are very good. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was always going to be tough, same with [Manchester] United at home with their new manager and the game plan they have been showing especially against the bigger teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every game is tough, we have to find a way to win and I think if we play like we did in the second half and keep fighting, keep trying, keep finding opportunities then I am very confident we will score goals as well like we have been doing all season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The leaders have come from behind five times in their last seven league games, including in their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cd9x5wpj4y9t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> 2-2 draw with United<\/a>, with Van Dijk praising their character. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old added: &#8220;It shows resilience, no one wants to come from behind, we have to keep working on that and have everyone in the best shape to prevent that. All we can do is try to do it in the next game better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van Dijk felt it was two points dropped at the City Ground, having conceded Chris Wood&#8217;s early opener. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors dominated the second half with Matz Sels twice denying Jota, while Ola Aina blocked Mohamed Salah&#8217;s late effort on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We should have won, could have won, but the reality is we take a point at a difficult ground,&#8221; said Van Dijk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We created many chances and we could have won the game against a team that doesn&#8217;t concede many chances, they had kept clean sheets in the last four games so that says a lot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we could have scored at least a couple of goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cdxn9g2qx18o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Virgil Van Dijk dismissed any fears Liverpool have stumbled in their title bid. Diogo Jota&#8217;s equaliser, just 22 seconds after the substitute came on, earned a point at Nottingham Forest on Tuesday. Arne Slot&#8217;s side have won three of their last seven Premier League games but still have a six-point lead over second placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25084,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25082\/revisions\/25084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}