Liverpool star Van Dijk says he is 'held to a very high standard' amid Gullit, Van Basten criticism

Virgil van Dijk says he relishes being “converge to a terribly high perfunctory” and also feels composed for Liverpool’s Premier League clash at Manchester Metropolis this weekend.

Van Dijk’s digital renown as one of the earth’s elite centre-recommends possesses been under check-up since a knee injury in October 2020 sidelined him for 9 months and also last season’s campaign lone acquired worse the criticism.

The Dutchman, who usurped the captaincy from Jordan Henderson in the summer season, performs not ago away from the reality he was flawlessly listed below his most secure as Liverpool ended up 5th last term, yet he opines there possesses been an upturn in his kind and also he is sensation “gargantuan” again.

“Last year saw ups and also downs, fantastic galleries and also much less fantastic galleries,” said the Netherlands captain.

“I’m converge to a terribly high perfunctory and also I still am. That’s what I’ve wreaks and also I value that. If that’s not the pill after that something’s not right.

“But I feel like I am in fantastic minute literally and also emotionally and also I feel like I am gargantuan. I merely feel terribly fantastic and also I twinge to retain going.

“For me the numerous gargantuan point is how I feel, what my team-chums feel around me and also specifically the boss. With one voice the rumpuses from the exterior, whether it is terribly fantastic or terribly inadequate you can’t perform anything with it.

“I twinge to retain simplifying and also I undoubtedly feel I did.”

Van Dijk’s greatest skeptics are in his mother suburban, with the loves of Marco van Basten and also Ruud Gullit among the numerous outspoken.

He possesses brushed it off in days gone by and also lingers to perform so, with his kind appearing to be unborn to a head onward of Saturday’s pilgrimage to face leaders Metropolis.

“The lone point I can inspire is how I tinker and also last year I realise I wasn’t at my most secure,” encompassed the Dutchman when enquired around the criticism.

“I owned fantastic galleries and also lesser fantastic galleries and also I merely have to perform on the pitch.

“What I strive for each and also every gallery yet in a indistinguishable method all season is consonance, that the team can rely on me at a provable extent all the time and also this year undoubtedly off the pitch with the captaincy, something I value and also am situating out still.

“I’m not most secure yet I’m channeling out it my method and also memorializing the woe.”

While Van Dijk is memorializing using the armband for bar as flawlessly as suburban, he possesses in a indistinguishable method heeded a amendment in Trent Alexander-Arnold, the modern vice-captain.

“I hope it (vice-captaincy) possesses aided him. Whether he loves it or not, and also I think he performs like it, he possesses to snatch that obligation,” he said.

“He will undoubtedly thrive right into it. He’s not the numerous vocal dude out there yet he is situating out and also channeling out his point and also it’s realizing fantastic how he copes with it, specifically off the pitch and also confiscating that obligation.

“It is a modern job yet it suits him, specifically as a stretch dude who recognizes every little thing around the bar.”