TEX-FLEX

It's getting tasty as Liverpool stars Van Dijk and Isak square off in sizzling Texan showdown

- FROM JEREMY CROSS in Houston

FRIENDSHIPS will be flung out of the window tonight when Sweden take on the Netherlands in a World Cup showdown in Texas.

The Group F clash in Houston will see a head-on collision between Alexander Isak and Liverpool teammate Virgil van Dijk (the pair, left).

It's a scrap between two adopted Scousers, which could well decide the outcome of a game crucial to both sides. Sweden made a barnstorming start to the tournament after swatting aside Tunisia in a 5-1 Monterrey massacre.

Isak was one of the standouts of the five-star show, scoring his side's second goal and providing two assists, to remind the world what a potent striker he can be.

One which persuaded Liverpool to spend £125million on signing him from Newcastle United last summer, making him the most expensive player in British football history.

But what happened since then makes that moment feel a long time ago. So long, in fact, that Van Dijk himself might need a reminder of how lethal Isak is again.