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Virgil van Dijk's First Touch Should Genuinely Be Illegal

Virgil van Dijk's First Touch Should Genuinely Be Illegal

The Liverpool star showed off his skills during training.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

You NEED to see Virgil van Dijk's first touch.

The towering-defender can clearly do the lot. Just check out his ridiculous first-touch, here, during Liverpool training.

One of his teammates launched the ball into the sky, and van Dijk caressed the ball with a silky, silky touch in superb fashion. Time to gawk:

Stop it, Virgil.

He's one of the best defenders in world football. The 27-year-old can spray the ball from defence, read the game like a book and has an outrageous first touch.

Liverpool fans will be hoping he's as commanding as ever when they face Manchester United on 'Super Sunday'.

And ahead of the huge Premier League meeting, Paul Merson and Phil Thompson have been talking up van Dijk prowess.

"If I was Man Utd, I'd want Virgil van Dijk," Merson said.

"Defensively, they are not good enough, nowhere near it and he's the best in the business for me.

"It's easy to say after, but Van Dijk probably wondered if he would be this good at a big club because he was at Southampton where if you win, you win, if you don't then you don't.

"I don't mean that in a bad way but there's no pressure compared to Liverpool."

Image: PA
Image: PA
Image: PA
Image: PA

"It has to be Van Dijk because he's the kind of player you can build a team around," Thompson said when asked what Liverpool player Jose Mourinho would want.

"He can sure them up at the back and can organise those around him to make the team a lot more solid and then give them a better base to attack."

He's Jurgen Klopp's player and the Dutch captain is quickly becoming his main man.

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Topics: the netherlands, Liverpool, Football News, Football, Manchester United, Premier League, Virgil Van Dijk, Jurgen Klopp, Champions League