Virgil van Dijk has insisted his Liverpool teammates ought to be wanting ahead to Thursday night time’s conflict with Arsenal on the Emirates.
Regardless of the Premier League champions being 14 factors adrift of league leaders Arsenal in the mean time, the Netherlands worldwide believes there’s ‘no motive’ to not be excited forward of the sport.
The Reds thought that they had earned all three factors final outing at Fulham on Sunday after Cody Gakpo netted in harm time on the finish of the sport, just for Harrison Reid’s gorgeous strike a couple of minutes later forcing the spoils to be shared.
“Everyone knows at residence they’re unbeaten this season,” The Liverpool skipper stated (as quoted by Liverpool Offside). “So it’s a pleasant problem and we ought to be prepared for a struggle. I’m wanting ahead to it and everybody ought to. That’s the solely approach to attempt to get a end result. There isn’t a motive to not look ahead to it.
“Each recreation is troublesome. We clearly need to see the positives and take that into the following problem. That’s how it’s. We preserve preventing, preserve going, and on to Arsenal.”
Van Dijk and Co. ought to be excited by the prospect of ruining Arsenal’s wonderful residence document.
Again in September Arne Slot’s facet inflicted the primary defeat of the season on the Gunners because of Dominik Szoboszlai’s gorgeous free kick late on at Anfield.
Arsenal have misplaced only one league recreation since then, at Aston Villa final month, and will probably be desperate to retain or prolong their six-point hole on the high on Thursday night with one other victory.
Liverpool have appeared nothing just like the crew that cruised to their twentieth league title final time period.
Defensively the Reds are shaky and regardless of spending over £300m on attacking gamers in the summertime, their attacking spark seems non-existent of late.
We definitely have gamers who could cause the north-London outfit hassle however we should guarantee we’re defensively stable earlier than worrying in regards to the different finish of the pitch.
