Virgil van Dijk has vowed Liverpool will come back strong after getting "knocked down" by their defeat at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday evening.
A remarkable audio file of how this decision unfolded has since emerged, with the incompetence on show only adding to the frustration felt by Klopp and his players
Liverpool are well within their rights to feel aggrieved on the back of Saturday's showdown, though will attempt to channel this anger in a positive way
Van Dijk wrote in his programme notes:
"It isn't very often that you lose a game and the strongest emotion you feel along with the obvious disappointment is pride, but this is exactly how I felt after our defeat to Spurs at the weekend.
"I was proud to be captain of this club, proud to lead this team and proud of the supporters who backed us to the hilt when so much was going against us. That collective spirit can only serve us well going forward.
"Yes, the points are gone for good but there is nothing stopping us from using the positives and the biggest one for me was definitely the way that we all stuck together.
"Again, the result went against us, but in so many ways this was Liverpool FC at its defiant and determined best.
"It wasn't as if we haven't shown these qualities already this season either. We have shown them in games in which we have gone behind and come back to win.
"We have shown them in other fixtures when we have been a player down but carried on fighting as if we still had a full 11 on the pitch.
"So, it is up to us to carry on getting up when we get knocked down, hopefully starting with the game tonight."
Van Dijk adds
"Like every opponent, Union Saint-Gilloise will come to Anfield looking to make things as difficult for us as possible and rightly so. They have their own job to do and their own objectives to achieve
"On top of this we know that they have a squad with plenty of quality so we have prepared for this fixture in the knowledge that we will be given a real test.
"The Belgian Pro League tells us everything we need to know anyway. Union SG are top of that division ahead of clubs like Gent, Anderlecht and Club Brugge so this speaks for itself.
"They are clearly an ambitious, upwardly mobile club which is writing its own stories and that makes them a threat not just to us but to whoever they come up against in the Europa League."
Comments