{"id":263537,"date":"2026-01-29T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263537\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:05:10","slug":"liverpool-captain-virgil-van-dijk-makes-history-by-recording-unlikely-champions-league-first-during-the-reds-rout-of-qarabag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263537\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk makes history by recording unlikely Champions League first during the Reds\u2019 rout of Qarabag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could be that January reinforcements are added to the Reds\u2019 squad, allowing them to compete on multiple fronts, with the winter window set to remain open until February 2.<\/p>\n<p>Slot told reporters when asked if he is looking to bolster his ranks, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/injury-woe-jeremie-frimpong-liverpool-defender-forced-off-champions-league-qarabag\/blt67fbcaaf2515e9e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeremie Frimpong the latest Reds star to pick up an untimely injury<\/a>: \u201cWe as a club always make decisions that we, at least, think [are] smart decisions. So, we not only look at the short term, we also look at the long term, longer term \u2013 that&#8217;s why we sign young players as well, very good players but young ones that can still develop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we can see this development with a few. And it always depends on are there players available that we think can help us? And if they are, can we afford them? And does this also be helpful for the longer-term future because our players come back from injury as well?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, who have slipped to sixth in the Premier League table, will be back in domestic action on Saturday when playing host to Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It could be that January reinforcements are added to the Reds\u2019 squad, allowing them to compete on multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4488,85,46,172,138251,105,138250],"class_list":{"0":"post-263537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-vs-qarabag-fk","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-v-van-dijk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}