Van Dijk kept more clean sheets than any defender in Europe's top five leagues, with 20.

Of course he will. Virgil van Dijk made £750,000 in bonuses for keeping clean sheets in the Liverpool backline last season. nobody has dribbled past VVD in his past 64 appearances for Liverpool - a run starting in March 2018. The Team That Gave Jose Mourinho The Most Stress As A Manager, Liverpool Forward Roberto Firmino Played A Very Different Game For Brazil Last Night, Colombia Defender Santiago Arias Suffers Horrific Ankle Injury Vs Venezuela, reports say the Reds have offered him fresh terms on a new contract. Firstly because of his personality,” says Lijnders. Last updated on 23 July 201923 July 2019.From the section European Footballcomments842. "If I knew Alisson was this good I would have paid double," said Klopp after a. prevented them from a Champions League exit in December.

Van Dijk, Messi and co will have to wait until an unconfirmed date - most likely in December - to discover who has won this year's award. He played 3,385 minutes, only missing the final 35 minutes of a 3-0 win over former side Southampton in September with an injury.

is the only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or, doing so in 1963. Beyond the six favourites already mentioned, everyone else seems a long shot.

Analysis and opinion from our chief football writer.

A Champions League winner and PFA player of the year, but could Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk's stellar 2019 get a whole lot better? “And with those giant leaps of his, he solves many football problems.”, Hazard slammed over Real Madrid season: He turned up overweight, Solskjaer confident Pogba to sign Man Utd deal and stay. Yes he should!

Usually they are forwards or creative midfielders - and normally they have just won the Champions League. However, reports say the Reds have offered him fresh terms on a new contract and his wages will soar up from £125,000 per week to £200,000 per week. seems to only recognise those from the top half of the pitch. 574.

Ronaldo, now 34, had his worst goalscoring campaign since his final season at Manchester United in 2008-09, with 28 goals in all competitions and failing to win a league or Champions League Golden Boot. To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on. If the Ballon d'Or was purely for goalscoring exploits, you could not look past Messi - who managed a sensational 51 goals in 50 games for Barcelona last season - a goal every 78 minutes over an entire campaign. If you lot don't rate VVD, are you saying Maguire is better then?

He has never sported a pair of Lonsdale Slip-ons, contrary to reports. “And what is great about him is that the team can press really high up on the pitch when you have a central defender like Virgil at the back. The standard of play at the Copa America rules Allison out, as Brazil simply did the job most expected. “When the opposition has dealt with our three strikers, they are facing a block of seven midfielders, and then, finally, they are facing Virgil van Dijk. The pair shared the Premier League Golden Boot with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22 goals last season.

Messi's season ended in characteristic fashion - with a major tournament exit with Argentina. ‘He’s just crazy about keeping clean sheets’: Virgil Van Dijk praised by Jurgen Klopp’s assistant Pep Lijnders after Liverpool talisman played every Premier League game for the second season running Virgil Van Dijk has been a colossus for Premier League champions Liverpool The Dutchman was signed for £75m in January 2018 and hit the ground running […] VVD typifies the modern defender and also has the attributes reserved for the traditional CB. Since then, nine of the 12 winners (well, four names - Kaka, Ronaldo, Messi and Modric) have won the Champions League that season.

He provides coverage of professional wrestling and has interviewed some of the biggest names in the field - including the first UK interview with The Hardy Boyz after their return to WWE. He is just crazy about keeping clean sheets. “Virgil’s influence has been massive on the team.

Alisson, who joined the Reds from Roma for £66.8m last summer, kept more clean sheets (21) than anyone else in Europe's top five leagues, conceding one goal every 155.5 minutes - also the best figure. Liverpool’s resourceful defender Virgil van Dijk is unruffled by the champions’ inability to record a clean sheet at Anfield so far in the 2019/2020 campaig

He won the Golden Boot in both the Champions League (12 goals in 10 games) and La Liga (36 in 34).

if he doesnt then the award is a joke. Yoda? How to get into football - the most popular sport in the world, with clubs and facilities throughout the UK. ... Shkodran Mustafi Has Kept More Clean Sheets Than Virgil van Dijk And Harry Maguire .

The pair shared the Premier League Golden Boot with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22 goals last season. Goalkeeper Alisson's odds were cut to as short as 7-1 after helping Brazil win the Copa America with a 3-1 final victory over Peru this month. He played more passes than any other defender - 3,037 to Aymeric Laporte's 2,998 - with a 90% success rate.

The most remarkable stat is that nobody has dribbled past the former Celtic player in his past 64 appearances for Liverpool - a run starting in March 2018. The shortest odds for any of Manchester City's domestic treble-winning players are Raheem Sterling and Copa America winner Gabriel Jesus at 66-1, the same odds as - for some reason - Tottenham and France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. Soviet Union legend Lev Yashin is the only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or, doing so in 1963.

Jealousy just eating people up, Get over it Liverpool are the champions of Europe and VVD is currently the best defender in the world, Will he be crowned Ballon D'or? The only exceptions have been for outstanding goalscoring campaigns - Messi's 91 goals in 2012 and 60 in 2010, and Ronaldo's 66 in 2013.

Last updated 6:43 PM, Sunday September 08 2019 GMT+1. The Dutchman is odds-on favourite to win this year's Ballon d'Or - and, "If I am rewarded for the season I had that would be unbelievable and I would be so proud. It's credit to everyone who has helped me. Virgil van Dijk made £750,000 in bonuses for keeping clean sheets in the Liverpool backline last season. He is only dealing with ‘clean sheets’.

VVD lifted the CL with one of the best defensive records along with one of the best ever in the premier league last year too with crazy stats along the way! “Virgil’s influence has been massive on the team. Last season he played every Premier League game as Liverpool only conceded 22 goals - the lowest number in any of Europe's top six leagues - and picked up 97 points to finish just behind Manchester City. Impeccable reading of the game, literally every opponent he went up against last season was bound to the seams of his pockets, Champions League Winner, Aerial threat, distribution of the ball, quick feet, pace, strong, assists, the list could go on..

Somebody other than Liverpool fans must think that otherwise how would he be there in the first place! This time they lost to Brazil in the Copa America semi-finals. It's been a long road and it's part of my journey.

Read about our approach to external linking. So many bitter fans on here today.

The Groningen youth product will now be one of the best-paid defenders in world football but it hasn't always been plain-sailing for him. Lijnders claims his fixation on shutting out the opposition was a major plank of their success in ending thirty years without the coveted crown.

He's at Liverpool, which probably won't help his cause, but he's first class and deserves it.

I'm a United fan and I think he should win the Ballon d'Or because he's made a great difference to an already good attacking Liverpool team but one that was fragile at the back. “He does not need to talk about leadership, he is showing leadership and his winning mentality in every vein of his body. He won the, Van Dijk was the only man to play more than 1,000 minutes in Europe's top five leagues last season without being dribbled past.

He played 3,385 minutes, only missing the final 35 minutes of a, His major disappointments were missing out on the Premier League title with a record points haul for runners-up, and losing the, odds were cut to as short as 7-1 after helping.

with a 3-1 final victory over Peru this month.

", Last season he played every Premier League game as Liverpool only conceded 22 goals - the lowest number in any of Europe's top six leagues - and picked up 97 points to finish just behind Manchester City. First they have to try and get past our three strikers, who run and fight for every ball.

So what do recent winners have in common?

United fans talk utter cr*p. When VVD was having his medical at Lfc Utd tried to gazump Liverpool but VVD said no thanks.

The Dutchman was in sensational form during the campaign, winning both the PFA Player of the Year and UEFA Men's Player of the Year after a series of imperious displays as the Reds pushed Manchester City all the way for the Premier League title and won their sixth European Cup in Madrid.

The simple answer is the fans.

He had a remarkable run of nine games without conceding for club and country, starting with Liverpool's 4-0 Champions League semi-final second-leg win over Barcelona and ending with a Paolo Guerrero penalty in the Copa America final.

He is such a calm figure.

Is that one of those stats which sounds more impressive than it is? However, he did win Serie A with his new club Juventus, and the Nations League with Portugal.

"I wasn't 18 and went straight to the top," the Dutch defender said. I'm assuming the awarding body (France Football) will not be taking into consideration the thoughts and feelings of bitter supporters of rival PL teams! ", Topics: Liverpool, Football News, Football, LFC, Premier League, Virgil Van Dijk, Champions League. He won a higher percentage of his duels than any other defender - 245 of 321 (76.3%) and ranked fifth on that list for aerial battles. Van Dijk kept more clean sheets than any defender in Europe's top five leagues, with 20. The next top defender not to be dribbled past once in the league was veteran Italian Andrea Raggi, who played six Ligue 1 games for Monaco all season. "If I knew Alisson was this good I would have paid double," said Klopp after a crucial save against Napoli prevented them from a Champions League exit in December. As a result, his shut-out successes saw him collect an extra £750,000 thanks to a 'complex bonus structure' according to The Mirror, citing details published by Football Leaks a few months after he joined Liverpool. He ranked third in successful passes (864) and fourth in percentage of shots saved (77%) in those leagues.

Lijnders claims his fixation on shutting out the opposition was a major plank of their success in ending thirty years without the coveted crown. The top four were all Liverpool and Manchester City defenders.

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