VAN DRIVEN

Virgil urges Reds to put bad week behind them & Secure Prem crown in quick time

- CHRIS MCKENNA

VIRGIL VAN DIJK knows Liverpool's critics will think the sky is falling in but he has urged his team-mates to waste no time in getting the job done in the Premier League.

Arne Slot's side lost the Carabao Cup final on Sunday to Newcastle to cap a week in which they were also dumped out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain on penalties.

Liverpool's hopes of winning three trophies are over but they are still a whopping 12 points clear at the top of the Premier League table with nine games to go.

It means a record-equalling 20th league title is within touching distance and Reds captain Van Dijk has called on his team to get over the line as quickly as possible.

He said: "We have to turn this around. It's how football works in five days you lose twice and the world is sinking, sort of how you can say it, and two weeks before everything was, you know, sunshine and rainbows everywhere.