Playing in defence against the Premier League’s best strikers is meant to be one of the world’s most difficult jobs, but fortunately Liverpool have a man who makes it look like he’s having a kickabout in his back garden. Combining strength with sublime technique, Virgil van Dijk is quite possibly the coolest man in football – ‘calm as you like’, as the famous Anfield chant about him says. So multi-talented you couldn’t design a more complete defender in a computer simulation, this colossus is kryptonite for opposition forwards, once going 50 games and more than 500 days without even being dribbled past! Idolised on the Kop and a national hero back home courtesy of his role as Netherlands team captain, VVD’s road to the top took him to Groningen and Southampton via Glasgow, but he hasn’t looked back since grabbing a dramatic late winner in a Merseyside derby on his Reds debut. The big man likes to have his say at the other end of the pitch, too, bursting nets with booming headers and laser-guiding long passes onto the toes of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and company.
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