Liverpool Must Be Mentally Ready For PSG – Van Dijk

Liverpool captain Virgil Van Dijk has apologised to fans following their FA Cup humiliation at Manchester City. He recently accused his team of giving up before the game ended, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even though he and his teammates came out with the right intentions from the dressing room, the players definitely let down the club in the second half.

Van Dijk added that he expects the PSG match to be tough this week, therefore the boys must be ready mentally.

His words, “I can only apologise to the fans for what we have shown, especially the second half.

Obviously you come out with the right intentions from the dressing room, to hopefully score for 2-1 as soon as possible to change the game.

The opposite happens and to come back from 3-0 is obviously very difficult here — but also you shouldn’t give up and that’s maybe, at a certain point, what happened.

We let our fans down, we let ourselves down, and the manager. The way we played in the second half, especially, must hurt for everyone. It definitely hurts me

It’s a together thing, isn’t it? Obviously he’s responsible as the manager but we are the ones on the pitch that have to do it.

The matter of fact is now, PSG are waiting for us. I watched them Friday a little bit. It will be so tough again. So we have to be ready mentally as soon as possible.

I’ve been lucky enough to play for Liverpool for so many years. The main thing we always had was togetherness. Now obviously are in a little bit of a transition we have to find it.

It’s difficult to perform every two days if you don’t have it consistently.

We have a responsibility to ourselves and, especially, to the fans. If we want to make something out of this season, then we have to try and produce something special the next three games.

I’m trying to think how we can turn this round. We’ve been going through this almost 75 per cent of the season.

We fall back into games where we get beaten on intensity or beaten on how much you really want to go for it. It’s a difficult one to take and everyone has to look at themselves.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.