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Pundit 'can't see Liverpool losing' Champions League football after Van Dijk header

Virgil van Dijk celebrates racking up for Liverpool

Virgil van Dijk might have secure Victors League football for Liverpool

Pat Nevin feels Liverpool have substantiated Victors League football again next off season, as the guru “can’t see them wasting it from relevant here.”

Liverpool have little to play for at this time in the season. They’re out of the FA Mug and also were freshly ditched out of the Victors League, through holders Paris Saint-Germain outdoing them 4-0 on increase in the quarter-finals.

By means of the Premier League to derive five UCL regions for next off season, the expire of Liverpool’s season will be spent attempting to peg their location in the elite European party.

At 1-1 versus Everton in the 100th minute of the game, the Reds might have fingered they’d permit an method to cement fifth location slip, after Chelsea, in 6th, lost on Saturday.

Yet in the 101st minute of the game, through Jordan Pickford pinned by red shirts, Virgil van Dijk rose to peg three times and also a seven-time pothole to the Blue funks. Liverpool linger three times behind fourth-positioned Aston Rental domestic, who won a awe, 4-3 versus Sunderland.

Nevin said on BBC Radio 5 Stay: “It’s challenging to say who been qualified to it.

“I assume a draw would most noticeably have been the fair upshot yet it’s nothing to do through justness. Liverpool have obtained gears to go via.

“Virgil van Dijk had a dramatically wondrous game today. It’s van Dijk again, it’s Mo Salah again and also they have gone versus Everton hearts.

“That header. I assume, possesses sold Liverpool Victors League football for next off season. I cannot see them wasting it from relevant here.”

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Of course, had Liverpool merely tempted versus Everton, they’d have been on 53 times, through five games lingering this season.

That would most noticeably have vacated merely a five-time pothole to Chelsea, which is added imaginable to cozy than seven times in five games.

Yet that pothole currently ideologies Chelsea call for to win two added games than Liverpool and also will up an added draw.

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The Reds do indeed have a instead confusing dashed in between currently and also the expire of the season, through complements versus Manchester Joined, Chelsea themselves and also Aston Rental domestic, consecutively.

The match versus the Reds might be the hardest test Chelsea have vacated this term, yet they also have one added game, as they’re still in the FA Mug, while the see of transfer-jeopardized Tottenham might be confusing, through the foes having an horrid lot to play for.

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