The world's most expensive defender goes up against the Premier League's best ever minutes-per-goal striker live on Sky Sports on Sunday - but will Liverpool's £75m man Virgil van Dijk or Manchester City's Sergio Aguero come out on top?

Van Dijk made a dream start to his Liverpool career, scoring a derby winner on his debut in the FA Cup against Everton on Friday night. If he scores again on Sunday he would become only the second Liverpool defender to score on his Premier League debut after Abel Xavier, who scored 16 minutes into his first appearance in a 6-0 win at Ipswich in February 2002.

However, former Southampton captain Van Dijk was signed by Liverpool for his defensive qualities and the Reds will be buoyed by the fact that he has outperformed all of their other centre-back options since his arrival at St Mary's in September 2015.



Van Dijk v other Liverpool defenders - last three PL seasons
Van Dijk Lovren Matip Klavan Gomez
Clearances/90 7.3 6.6 5.3 5.4 2.8
Interceptions/90 2.7 1.6 1.7 1 2
Blocks/90 0.75 0.55 0.54 0.49 0.4
Errors leading to goals 0 3 2 1 0
Goals 4 3 2 1 0
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