Virgil van Dijk was understandably far from pleased with the quality of Liverpool’s defensive efforts in a first-half of action that saw the Reds concede an easy early goal.
The Dutchman was spotted by the Echo’s Ian Doyle on Twitter ‘going absolutely spare’ at a teammate ahead of a potentially game-changing block from Ibrahima Konate.
Corner for Rangers. Van Dijk is going absolutely spare at a team-mate, looked to be either Firmino or Carvalho…
— Ian Doyle (@IanDoyleSport) October 12, 2022
The Merseysiders find themselves in need of all three points to build a six-point gap to fellow Champions League knockout hopefuls Ajax after the Dutch outfit’s second defeat to Napoli in the group stages.
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Ibrahima Konate has steadily grown into the game as it’s progressed, which will be of some serious relief for Jurgen Klopp amid Joel Matip’s injury-enforced absence.
Hopefully, the Frenchman’s reintroduction to the back four will inject some much-needed steel into the defence, though it’s hard to be too critical about the backline when a lack of organisation in the middle of the park is directly contribution to our difficulties further back.
With a top midfield signing unlikely to come sooner than the summer window, however, assuming that we don’t drop out of the top four spots this term, a solution needs to be found rapidly.
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