{"id":299671,"date":"2025-12-05T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299671\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:10:15","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-sends-warning-that-no-one-is-undroppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299671\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Van Dijk Sends Warning That No-One Is Undroppable"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of Liverpool\u2019s 1-1 draw against Sunderland<\/a>, Virgil van Dijk<\/a> reflected on Mo Salah<\/a> being put on the bench by saying he doesn\u2019t think anyone is undroppable. <\/p>\n

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Virgil van Dijk says nobody is undroppable<\/p>\n

Salah has been in the spotlight having started on the bench for Liverpool\u2019s last two matches.<\/p>\n

As the highest-paid player in the squad it came as a surprise despite his poor form, but captain Van Dijk says he is \u201cnot worried\u201d about the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is still a fantastic player and we still have to remember there is a reason why he has been so successful at the club and we have to respect that,\u201d the skipper told media including the Liverpool Echo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

\u201cI need him around as one of the leaders. I\u2019m not worried. He\u2019s disappointed but that\u2019s absolutely normal as if you\u2019re not disappointed when you\u2019re not playing two games in a row then there is an issue as well. But it\u2019s onto the next now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s always been the case [that no-one is undroppable]. It\u2019s not like you have unlimited credit, everyone has to perform. Mo has been doing that but the manager made that decision in the last two games. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe all want the best for the club.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salah goes away to play for Egypt at AFCON following Liverpool\u2019s game against Brighton<\/a> on December 13. Perhaps the time away in a different setup will do him good.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Liverpool FC News<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

\u2022 Young striker Jayden Danns<\/a> is head of schedule in his hamstring recovery<\/a> \u2013 he \u201cis back on the grass doing ball work and could be back fit early in the new year,\u201d report the Mail<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Arne Slot<\/a> has said<\/a> he thinks Cody Gakpo<\/a> struggled against Sunderland<\/a> \u201cbecause it was hard for him to dominate the one-v-one or get crosses in\u201d \u2013 he put one accurate cross in and completed zero dribbles<\/p>\n

\u2022 According to the Telegraph<\/a>\u2018s Jonathan Northcroft, Liverpool are internally viewing<\/a> Salah\u2018s poor form as \u201ca blip\u201d and soon \u201cthere will come a reversion to the mean\u201d \u2013 fingers crossed!<\/p>\n

More from This Is Anfield<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

With Liverpool dropping yet more points against Sunderland<\/a>, Sam Millne, Abigail Rudkin and The Ragamuffins\u2019 David John Jaggs debated the key topics to come from the match:<\/p>\n

Jaggs: \u201cI think Slot has set us up to be more solid in this run of games and that has taken away some of our attacking impetus, but when confidence is understandably on the floor, getting back to basics is where we\u2019re at, I guess?<\/p>\n

\u201cIsak did look a little bit anonymous again which is a worry. I wonder what Haaland was like and what he was perceived to be for Man City<\/a> during their extended funk last season, albeit as someone who already has an incredible amount of credit in the bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: Liverpool\u2019s red arrows are a thing of the past \u2013 Alexander Isak \u2018didn\u2019t have a sniff\u2019
<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the football world today<\/p>\n

\"Trent<\/p>\n

\u2022 Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/a> has been ruled out for another two months after suffering a thigh injury for Real Madrid<\/a> \u2013 he has made just 11 appearances this season<\/p>\n

\u2022 Arsenal<\/a> have agreed to sign<\/a> Edwin and Holger Quintero from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle, with the twins set to join when they turn 18 years old in August 2027<\/p>\n

\u2022 Former goalkeeper Shaka Hislop has revealed he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, saying that \u201cthis morning completed seven-and-a-half weeks of radiation therapy\u201d \u2013 get well soon, Shaka<\/p>\n

On this day<\/p>\n

\"MADRID,<\/p>\n

December 4 would have been Diogo Jota<\/a>\u2018s 29th birthday. <\/p>\n

He signed for Liverpool when he was 23 years old and made 182 appearances for the Reds, winning the league, the FA Cup<\/a> and two League Cups before passing away in a car crash with his brother, Andre Silva, in July 2025.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re thinking of his family today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the aftermath of Liverpool\u2019s 1-1 draw against Sunderland, Virgil van Dijk reflected on Mo Salah being put…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,20608,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-299671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-round-up","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}