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Liverpool Player_van Dijk Wins English Player Of The Year by jaysport: 1:44pm On May 12, 2019 |
The Netherlands international beat the likes of
Raheem Sterling, Eden Hazard and Mohamed Salah
to the award following a stellar campaign
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has been named
the Premier League Player of the Season following a
memorable campaign for the Netherlands
international.
Signed for £75 million ($95m) from Southampton in
January 2018, Van Dijk has helped revolutionise the
Reds' backline this season as they battled for a first
league title in 29 years.
The 27-year-old beat off the likes of Raheem
Sterling, Eden Hazard and team-mates Mohamed
Salah and Sadio Mane to take the prize on Sunday
after fan votes were combined with those of a panel
of experts.
Editors' Picks
Manchester pair Bernardo Silva and Sergio Aguero
joined club-mate Sterling on the seven-man
shortlist for an award which has previously been
won by the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale,
Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry.
Van Dijk becomes the second successive Liverpool
player to win the prize following Salah's success in
2017-18 and fourth overall, with Luis Suarez and
Michael Owen having also taken home the award
during their respective times at Anfield.
It is also the second illustrious gong that the former
Celtic centre-back has won in recent times after he
was named PFA Player of the Year in the closing
weeks of the campaign .
In total, Van Dijk has played in each of Liverpool's
37 Premier League matches this term, helping them
to 20 clean sheets while scoring four goals at the
other end of the pitch.
Those performances have helped Liverpool to keep
the pressure on defending champions Man City at
the top of the table heading into the final day of the
season.
Victory for Pep Guardiola's side at Brighton will see
them named English champions for the fourth time
in the Premier League era, but anything less could
allow Van Dijk and the Reds to sneak and claim top
spot for themselves.
Jurgen Klopp's side host Wolves on the final day of
the campaign after a memorable season that has
seen them defeated just once in the league and
accrue a record-breaking 94 points from their first
37 matches.
And though they may not prove to be enough come
close of play on Sunday, the five-time European
champions could still end the campaign with
silverware having booked their place in the
Champions League final.
Klopp will take his squad to Madrid for the
showpiece event on June 1 following their
remarkable comeback against Barcelona in the
semi-finals, with Liverpool winning 4-0 in the
second leg following a 3-0 defeat at Camp Nou six
days earlier.
They will face first-time finalists and fellow Premier
League outfit Tottenham at the Wanda Metripolitano
after Mauricio Pochettino's side pulled off their own
come-from-behind win to knock out Ajax in the last
four.
Liverpool star Van Dijk named Premier
League Player of the Season
Tom Maston
Last updated 12:30
12:09 12/05/2019
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