Liverpool are through to the fourth round of the FA Cup and Virgil van Dijk is the best defender in the universe.
No doubt Martin Keown will agree with everything in that sentence judging by his over enthusiastic praise of van Dijk on the BBC last night, although the reality is only the first bit of it is true.
Yes, Liverpool’s ever-so-slightly over-priced centre-back had a half reasonable game against the mighty Dominic Calvert-Lewin, but let’s not get carried away just yet.
Sure, he grabbed the headlines with the winner against Everton and followed up with the inevitable (and totally sickening) badge-slapping celebration we’d expect from a player who went on strike to force a move, but that’s not really the main story from Friday’s Merseyside derby.