CROCK AND ROLL

Van Dijk salutes fight of injury-hit leaders

- Mike Walters

THEIR dressing room looked like a scene from M*A*S*H with crutches, moon boots and knee braces everywhere.

But as Liverpool's title crusade reached the point of Mo return, skipper Virgil van Dijk emerged from the platoon of walking wounded announce: "There can be no questions about our resilience."

After another three crocks tested their fortitude, Andy Robertson revealed the Reds' old stagers were steering the next generation through the "alien" rapids of the title run-in like coxes in the Boat Race.

On Saturday, substitute Mo Salah decorated his comeback, after an eight-game absence, with his 19th goal and 10th assist of the season.

The dinks were on Darwin Nunez, who never knowingly scores when there is woodwork to rattle, but at Brentford the Uruguayan's finish was sublime.