Speaking to Sky Sports, Van Dijk explained in his post-match interview after Bournemouth that he didn’t agree with the critics last season.
“Last year was not, for my standards, the best year,” Van Dijk said. “I fully admit that. But it wasn’t that bad as everyone is making out how it was. For me it was a case of just keeping my head down and don’t listen to the noise around me and just starting playing.”
“I’m glad I did and pre-season on, even from last year, I think after we changed the system a little bit and Trent played a little bit more inside it went very well. I feel fine and what to achieve a lot of things as captain of this football club.”
Van Dijk is right. As we stated above, there were a lot of other issues going on at Liverpool as well, which impacted his performance. However, this season he has well and truly proven the old age adage – form is temporary, class is permanent.
