{"id":315650,"date":"2025-12-14T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315650\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:45:06","slug":"liverpool-united-as-one-after-mohamed-salah-return-says-virgil-van-dijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315650\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool ‘united as one’ after Mohamed Salah return, says Virgil van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool<\/a> “are absolutely united and go forward as one” after Mohamed Salah returned to the squad for Saturday’s win over Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Salah came off the bench for his first Liverpool<\/a> appearance since claiming after last weekend’s 3-3 draw with Leeds that he had been “thrown under the bus” by the club.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old was left out of the squad for the midweek Champions League win at Inter Milan, but returned for the Brighton game following talks with manager Arne Slot – and claimed an assist in the 2-0 win.<\/p>\n

Salah joins up with the Egypt national team for the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on Monday and could miss up to eight Liverpool<\/a> games if his country go all the way to the final on 18 January.<\/p>\n

“We showed this week that we are absolutely united. We go forward as one,” said Van Dijk, who made his 250th Premier League appearance for Liverpool<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Mo is going to Afcon and we all hope that he’ll be successful there and he’ll come back and be important for us for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

“The other side of it is that we all know football and we have no idea what is going to happen. I hope that he stays because he is one of my leaders and still very important for the football club. But there’s more parties to this situation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool “are absolutely united and go forward as one” after Mohamed Salah returned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-315650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315650","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=315650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}