Tag: Virgil van Dijk

Ranking the 10 best center backs in world football right now in 2024
7Jul By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Champions League, Features

Ranking the 10 best center backs in world football right now in 2024

The center back position is becoming more of a premium position in world football these days with elite European clubs trying to lock down the world's best attacking players. Here are the 10 best center backs in the world right now in 2024. 10. Giorgio Scalvini, Atalanta Atalanta star Giorgio Scalvini gets overlooked because of all the top-class defensive talent in Serie A, and Atalanta tend to get a whole lot less press than, say, Juventus or Inter Milan. Furthermore, it doesn't help that Bologna star Riccardo Calafiori is the young Italian center back soaking up all the media attention and social media fanposts. That's for good reason, but before Euro 2024, Scalvini was seen as THE young center back to watch in Italian football after putting together a second excellent season ...
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Liverpool’s 4 biggest winners and losers of Euro 2024 so far
19Jun By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Features, Premier League

Liverpool’s 4 biggest winners and losers of Euro 2024 so far

Every team has played at least one fixture at Euro 2024 so far, and the tournament looks like it could be the best in ages, based on how things went in the first round of group stage matches. Liverpool have a handful of stars represented at Euro 2024, so let's take stock of their biggest winners and losers at an individual level from the tournament thus far. Winner: LW Cody Gakpo By far the biggest winner of any Liverpool player so far at Euro 2024, there's a case to be made that Cody Gakpo was the best player of the opening fixtures in the group stages. Gakpo picked up where he left off from a strong close to the 2023/24 Premier League season, scoring a goal for the Netherlands in their 2-1 win over Poland while standing out alongside Liverpool teammate Virgil van Dijk. The ver...
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Ranking the 5 best players of the Jurgen Klopp era at Liverpool
18May By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Features, Premier League

Ranking the 5 best players of the Jurgen Klopp era at Liverpool

As Jurgen Klopp gears up for his last game ever as Liverpool manager, it's time to take a look back at the five greatest players of his time at Anfield, ranking them in order. 5. Roberto Firmino Roberto Firmino was captain clutch for Liverpool. An underappreciated false nine and playmaker at Hoffenheim, Firmino was perhaps the biggest gem of the many Ralf Rangnick found in his first true ground-up sporting project in the Bundesliga. An unselfish center-forward with an eye for no-look goals and flicked backheel assists, Firmino brought Hoffenheim to the Champions League level before being the glue guy up top who took Liverpool to the summit of the Champions League. You could always count on the well-rounded Firmino to raise his game when it mattered most, especially against the bigg...
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Ranking the 10 best Liverpool players of the 2010s decade
9Nov By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Features, Premier League

Ranking the 10 best Liverpool players of the 2010s decade

Liverpool have a storied history in the context of world football, but even the most successful and well-supported clubs have a dark period. From the 2009/10 to 2015/16 season, the Reds were in the top four of the Premier League just once, finishing second in 2013/14 behind Luis Suárez's 31-goal season. It wasn't until Jürgen Klopp's arrival in that 2015/16 season that Liverpool began turning things around. Klopp helped bring consistent winning back to Liverpool, assembling a juggernaut of a front three in Sadio Mané, Roberto Frimino, and Mohamed Salah. History will remember that attack as one of the best trios to ever grace the Premier League. Even if others will have better statistics, nobody will match the cohesion those three do. But it's not all about the attacking players, nor ...
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