Virgil van Dijk

[BigChief]

Have we broken our record of most clean sheets at this point in the season?

[Cormack74]

Yup (well sort of) and most points:

Liverpool are now unbeaten in 13 league games in 2018-19 and have more points - 33 - than they have ever had at this point in a Premier League season before.

The five goals they have conceded is a defensive club record for this stage of a top-flight campaign.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46244422

[dom9]

He is the player Lovren thinks he is

[baitman]

The leader of the pack.

He is the player Lovren thinks he is

Only a miserable **** wouldnt find that funny.

[Les Zeffelin]

We all knew he was good but I think he's a lot better than any of us even expected. I can't get over how good he is

Yep, Big Virge, he'll do. Scary to think he's got room to improve because....

He is the player Lovren thinks he is

…. he is only our third best CB behind Deggsie & his ego.

[rudedog]

Yup (well sort of) and most points:

Liverpool are now unbeaten in 13 league games in 2018-19 and have more points - 33 - than they have ever had at this point in a Premier League season before.

The five goals they have conceded is a defensive club record for this stage of a top-flight campaign.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46244422

That BBC match report is poor - it's like it's been written by someone who didnt actually watch the game.

[Cormack74]

Yup, that's why I didn't bother c and p ing the whole thing.

[danperkins]

He is the player Lovren thinks he is

very good

[labourRed]

What's this colossus doing way down page two.

Anyway he's become so good defending that other teams are defending him from defending. It's ok to block space by standing but what isn't ok is holding or grabbing like Burnley did last night in the lead up to their goal. That's simply a foul.

[Fredo]

Yep, they're resorting to blocking him now (Everton started using this tactic wasn't it?). We conceded out of this. Hope we can find solutions around this as the league aren't going to protect things like that.

[meffin]

Nobody ever mentions his fee now, just shows how good he is that he's surpassed expected performance for the most expensive defender in history

[Pablo]

I've actually noticed his fee gets mentioned a lot still in match commentaries. However it's always something along the lines of what a bargain £75m turned out to be

[gratziani]

Master defender , brilliant leader top bloke

What a signing and thank **** Klopp waited for him.

[SB]

Brilliant player & an even better organiser of our defence. I couldn’t see on tv but why didn’t he run over to celebrate with Bobby after the goal?

[BigChief]

Yep, they're resorting to blocking him now (Everton started using this tactic wasn't it?). We conceded out of this. Hope we can find solutions around this as the league aren't going to protect things like that.

Just like protecting the keeper, get Shakiri or Naby to do nothing but blocking off the blocker trying to block VvD. Simples.