Van Dijk

Captain Virgil Van Dijk dismissed any fears Liverpool have stumbled in their title bid. Diogo Jota’s equaliser, just 22 seconds after the substitute came on, earned a point at Nottingham Forest on Tuesday. Arne Slot’s side have won three of their last seven Premier League games but still have a six-point lead over second placed Forest before Arsenal play Tottenham on Wednesday night. They also lost their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg to Tottenham 1-0 last week. “Ooh, so we are in a crisis now?” joked Netherlands international Van Dijk, when Liverpool’s form was put to him. “It only confirms the…

Netherlands captain Virgil van Dijk will consider his future for both club and country over the next few weeks as he processes the disappointment of semifinal elimination at the European Championship on Wednesday, he said. Van Dijk, who turned 33 on Monday, said he would spend the next weeks figuring out his next career steps after nine years, and 75 caps, in the Netherlands team, plus with a single season left on his contract at Liverpool. “I haven’t the slightest idea right now. I will think carefully this summer about what I want at club level and as an international…