Speaking to TNT Sports post-match, Van Dijk said: “We kept pushing, pushing for the 3-1 and obviously to concede an equaliser, massively deflected, was obviously not great. <\/p>\n
“But we found a way again and I think we were dangerous in set-pieces. They were pretty aggressive, I must say. But I’m glad I got the winner. <\/p>\n
“[They are] a team that never gives up. They have quality players that can punish you if you’re not there in a split second, if you are a little bit too late. Obviously they punished us just before the break and after the break we tried to go for the 3-1 but obviously they got a bit of confidence from that as well. <\/p>\n
“But eventually you have to keep going and show the resilience that we have been showing throughout many years. It was another great European night here at Anfield.” <\/p>\n
On the team’s resilience, the No.4 continued: “I think we’ve shown many times that we are capable of doing it. Today I was the lucky one with the winner. We move on. <\/p>\n
“It’s always good to get off to a winning start. We play at home, it’s a good game, it’s a good opponent. Another game ticked off, three points.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to TNT Sports post-match, Van Dijk said: “We kept pushing, pushing for the 3-1 and obviously to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[13514,64,63,13515,596,13503,13510,13505,13516,13518,13517,7886,13509,13508,13504,13513,13506,13511,85,13507,13512],"class_list":["post-151081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alisson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-firmino","tag-football","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}