Jurgen Klopp has said he’ll need to take Virgil van Dijk out of the firing line at some stage after the Dutchman took another impressive step in his comeback by passing the Burnley test at Anfield.
Van Dijk helped repel the threat of physical Clarets strikers Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes as Liverpool kept a clean sheet in his first game at Liverpool's home for 317 days following a cruciate injury.
Incredibly, the centre-half hasn’t lost any of the 48 Premier League games he has played for Liverpool at Anfield but Klopp says last season’s injury crisis has persuaded him to rotate his talisman as well as Joe Gomez and Joel Matip who also missed large parts of last season.