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'Reds need to raise the bar'
The Sentinel
|September 19, 2025
VIRGIL van Dijk accepts Liverpool are making things unnecessarily difficult for themselves and must improve to avoid having to repeat their trick of scoring late winners.
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The captain’s header in the second minute of added time beat Atletico Madrid 3-2 in the Champions League - the fifth match in succession they have scored winners in the 83rd minute or later - but they could have achieved it much easier.
Three times this season they have had 2-0 leads pegged back before going on to snatch a dramatic victory and that will ultimately take its toll physically and mentally.
“7 think it was a little bit unnecessary. But Atletico are a team who never give up and have a lot of quality. Then we showed again the resilience we have shown for a couple of years,” said Van Dijk.
“We don’t want to come into a situation where we have to chase. You have to try to go for the win and I think we had the opportunities to kill the game and do better.
This story is from the September 19, 2025 edition of The Sentinel.
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