Chai this dribble is enough to cost him Ballon d'or.

gibzzhd:
first real time we saw him go for a tackle alone against a rushing attacker.He is always avoiding tackles by playing as a cover up.Most times u see matip go for tackles while he is standing to clear the lose ball or make a block.There is nothing special abt him.whatbi rather like of him is his brilliant understanding of the game to avoid dribbles which has been working for him.He has just been playing safe like mikel obi of Chelsea who would always make back passes to avoid misplaced passes.VVD a product of the English media.Once those guys reason ur matter na b say u Don blow.TARIBO sef pass am.

You lie, here is a tackle against neymar last season. You people are just jealous of him. If he was not doing anything right the whole world won't be looking for his downfall and celebrating it like you all are doing.

I have said this and will continue to say it, Virgil Van dijk is only a product of the English Media hype and nothing else..
he is a good defender , no doubt , but grading him as the best player is an insult to be honest.
He doesn’t even come close to defenders like Alessandro Nesta , Jaap Stam, Maldini, Sergio Ramos. Even past EPL best defenders like John Terry, Nemanja Vidic , or who remembers Ricardo Cavalho who throws his body at every shot aimed at his goal keeper, VVD doesn’t come close.

At least Liverpool fans and the England media can agree that he is human now too, and not a robot., coming up with useless stats about not being dribbled and all.. bullshit .


Once upon a time , Edwin Van der Sar of United kept over 16 clean sheets, it was a record then, but go back that season and appreciate Nemanja Vidic as a defender.
Van dyke is a good defender , no doubt , but the hype around him should please mellow down


The English hypes everything their way , to suit them, hence the reason their players are crap, imagine Rashford , Lingard , Kane , Sancho, Madison, Dier etc they are all average players at best. Shikena

nobodytestme:
I have said this and will continue to say it, Virgil Van dijk is only a product of the English Media hype and nothing else..
he is a good defender , no doubt , but grading him as the best player is an insult to be honest.
He cannot even come close to defenders like Alessandro Nesta , Jaap Stam, Maldini, Sergio Ramos. Even past EPL best defenders like John Terry, Nemanja Vidic , or who remembers Ricardo Cavalho who throws his body at every shot aimed at his goal keeper, VVD doesn’t come close.

The English hypes everything their way , to suit them, hence the reason their players are crap, imagine Rashford , Lingard , Kane , Sancho, Madison, Dier etc they are all average players at best. Shikena

Lies and more lies. Even your goats could not dribble him

Sanchez01:
The English media are pros at packaging mediocrity. Had the likes of Nesta, Maldini, Zanetti, Stam or even Ramos plied their trade in England, they would have gone ahead to become the standard in football defense.

His Stat isn't even anywhere close to Vidic's and the world would never stop claiming he is the next best thing to slice bread. It was even only this past week he managed to pull 8 points in the FPL.

It is one reason I regard most English hyped players, particularly the ones carefully packaged by the media.

Van Dijk is good o but he is only an average player in my opinion. How they smuggled him into the Ballon D'Or in FIFA BEST in the first place beats my imagination. I honestly don't understand what the fuss is about a media hype being busted.

You were making sense until you called him average. All the people in the hall of fame were disgraced at one point in their life. No be this same vidic plus Ferdinand plus van dar saar kaka almost kill for UCL that year?
Man is Good. And he deserves whatever award he's gotten so far.

Adjoyvi9:


Lies and more lies. Even your goats could not dribble him

Oga Ade, go sleep., you have your opinion and I’m entitled to mine ., ok!!

Your savior and your world best player is a product of English Media hype whether you like it or not .. shikena

nobodytestme:

Oga Ade, go sleep., you have your opinion and I’m entitled to mine ., ok!!

Your savior and your world best player is a product of English Media hype whether you like it or not .. shikena

Hatred and jealousy is allowed. You might even be a Barcelona fan yet to get over the pain Liverpool doled out to you.

anochuko01:

You were making sense until you called him average. All the people in the hall of fame were disgraced at one point in their life. No be this same vidic plus Ferdinand plus van dar saar kaka almost kill for UCL that year?
Man is Good. And he deserves whatever award he's gotten so far.

No mind all these people wey know no nothing about football.

Adjoyvi9:


Hatred and jealousy is allowed. You might even be a Barcelona fan yet to get over the pain Liverpool doled out to you.

Lol.. I got things to do bro, not a Barca fan either., but spelled out the fact. Your VVD is a good defender, but the English media hype surrounding him is way tooooooooo much.
In England , go watch Jose Mourinho's Chelsea of 2004/2005 and 2005/ 2006 and appreciate Ricardo Carvalho and John Terry, go watch Manchester United from 2006-2009 and appreciate Vidic and Ferdinand ., They did this consistently.., season in, season out .
Your VVD is good , but doesn’t come close to these niggaz , shikena

9jayes:
The dribble no be here wallahi, I be Liverpool fan but since wey our first choice keeper don get injury we hardly keep clean sheet. Liverpool now na go go sure pas

I tot u guyz said van dike was d 1 making u guyz keep clean sheet and not Alison

nobodytestme:
I have said this and will continue to say it, Virgil Van dijk is only a product of the English Media hype and nothing else..
he is a good defender , no doubt , but grading him as the best player is an insult to be honest.
He doesn’t even come close to defenders like Alessandro Nesta , Jaap Stam, Maldini, Sergio Ramos. Even past EPL best defenders like John Terry, Nemanja Vidic , or who remembers Ricardo Cavalho who throws his body at every shot aimed at his goal keeper, VVD doesn’t come close.

At least Liverpool fans and the England media can agree that he is human now too, and not a robot., coming up with useless stats about not being dribbled and all.. bullshit .


Once upon a time , Edwin Van der Sar of United kept over 16 clean sheets, it was a record then, but go back that season and appreciate Nemanja Vidic as a defender.
Van dyke is a good defender , no doubt , but the hype around him should please mellow down


The English hypes everything their way , to suit them, hence the reason their players are crap, imagine Rashford , Lingard , Kane , Sancho, Madison, Dier etc they are all average players at best. Shikena

is VVD English?... VVD is dutch so your insinuation is wrong

nobodytestme:


Lol.. I got things to do bro, not a Barca fan either., but spelled out the fact. Your VVD is a good defender, but the English media hype surrounding him is way tooooooooo much.
In England , go watch Jose Mourinho's Chelsea of 2004/2005 and 2005/ 2006 and appreciate Ricardo Carvalho and John Terry, go watch Manchester United from 2006-2009 and appreciate Vidic and Ferdinand ., They did this consistently.., season in, season out .
Your VVD is good , but doesn’t come close to these niggaz , shikena

And how many times where these defenders dribbled that season? You guys keep ranting he does not tackle when proof of his tackles are all over YouTube. His hype of last season was worth it because it was based on last season and not the entire career.

nobodytestme:
I have said this and will continue to say it, Virgil Van dijk is only a product of the English Media hype and nothing else..
he is a good defender , no doubt , but grading him as the best player is an insult to be honest.
He doesn’t even come close to defenders like Alessandro Nesta , Jaap Stam, Maldini, Sergio Ramos. Even past EPL best defenders like John Terry, Nemanja Vidic , or who remembers Ricardo Cavalho who throws his body at every shot aimed at his goal keeper, VVD doesn’t come close.

At least Liverpool fans and the England media can agree that he is human now too, and not a robot., coming up with useless stats about not being dribbled and all.. bullshit .


Once upon a time , Edwin Van der Sar of United kept over 16 clean sheets, it was a record then, but go back that season and appreciate Nemanja Vidic as a defender.
Van dyke is a good defender , no doubt , but the hype around him should please mellow down


The English hypes everything their way , to suit them, hence the reason their players are crap, imagine Rashford , Lingard , Kane , Sancho, Madison, Dier etc they are all average players at best. Shikena

the same vidic that usually gets humiliated by Torres and co you are just jealous van dijk actually had a good game yesterday Gomez was the weak link

Olamilekxy:
so dribbling a defender is now something new?
thanks to van dijk

am sure if dey should post hw many time dey have dribble past Phil Jones, koschielny, smalling, pique front page won't contain it.

Dis isn't about thanks to van dike,dey said he was so good dat even Messi couldn't do notin to him,we told dem he doesn't mark, his team mates are d covering up,dat y its d news is trending

nobodytestme:


Lol.. I got things to do bro, not a Barca fan either., but spelled out the fact. Your VVD is a good defender, but the English media hype surrounding him is way tooooooooo much.
In England , go watch Jose Mourinho's Chelsea of 2004/2005 and 2005/ 2006 and appreciate Ricardo Carvalho and John Terry, go watch Manchester United from 2006-2009 and appreciate Vidic and Ferdinand ., They did this consistently.., season in, season out .
Your VVD is good , but doesn’t come close to these niggaz , shikena

why are people jealous...captains and coaches voted for him, pundits and analyst tells us how good he is, they say English players are hyped by the media but VVD is not English but a Dutch guy, so why hype a non- English Man. VVD is a victim of his standard....everyone just seems annoyed at his recognition and awards as if he is the one that render praise on himself....na normal thing sha, of all events that happened yesterday everyone was so happy that VVD was dribbled yesterday....this actually shows the standard he has made. No one says he is better than Nesta or Maldini, you are judged by what is around you and Yes he is presently the World Best CB....if you hate am, that one na ur business

kendrick93:
same ramos that regularly gets humiliated by Ronaldinho,messi, eto'o and average laliga attackers?
Or vidic who got regularly turned inside out by Fernando Torres?

Oga! Don't compare GREATS to a cowardly VVD! These defenders come 4 the ball, not VVD that retreats so Matip do the dirty job.

anochuko01:

You were making sense until you called him average. All the people in the hall of fame were disgraced at one point in their life. No be this same vidic plus Ferdinand plus van dar saar kaka almost kill for UCL that year?
Man is Good. And he deserves whatever award he's gotten so far.

He's average sir.

How dare a 75million plus worth defender be dribbled??!... By a player worth less than a quarter no less...

This is what happens when unnecessary spotlight is placed on players... We tend to forget they are human... Imagine all the fuss... What defender hasn't suffered this fate at the hands, or legs, of Messi, Ronaldinho, and Raul??!

For the very fact that this was a big issue to the OP and still found its way to FT underlines the quality of VVD!
This is another proof that VVD is a superb defender!

Not even Rio Ferdinand in his time had such publicity when he was dribbled by opposing players!

Indeed Tuface song now makes so much sense..."If nobody talks about you,then you are nobody"

VVD can only get better!

mvem:
is VVD English?... VVD is dutch so your insinuation is wrong

Understand my analogy and what I’m saying before you draw conclusions..
I’m talking about the English media hype , has nothing to do with players Nationality

Understand and comprehend

Carsontyqa:
Oga! Don't compare GREATS to a cowardly VVD! These defenders come 4 the ball, not VVD that retreats so Matip do the dirty job.

Here are pictures against Barcelona, 4 against two, Messi was with the ball, he dispossessed Messi by winning his tackle. Videos of his tackles are up on YouTube if you care to watch but you won't just to justify your hatred and lies..... Van dijk the goat of defending argue with your screen.

nobodytestme:


Understand my analogy and what I’m saying before you draw conclusions..
I’m talking about the English media hype , has nothing to do with players Nationality

Understand and comprehend

English media hype their own and VVD is not English....VVD wey coach,captains and analysts voted for ...na English media vote for am ?....

simiife:



Dis isn't about thanks to van dike,dey said he was so good dat even Messi couldn't do notin to him,we told dem he doesn't mark, his team mates are d covering up,dat y its d news is trending

It's only you people that know he doesn't mark. YouTube is there for you watch his amazing tackles that you missed against all Stars last season the reason for the hype...... Against Ronaldo, Messi, neymar, mbappe, aguero, sane, insigne, sterling etc

Leave them racists...Mane and Salah go run things finish,na to smuggle defender go there because he is a European..why not give Matip of Cameroon d praises been showered on VVD ,because in my opinion Matip makes more moves to stop attacks

Sanchez01:
The English media are pros at packaging mediocrity. Had the likes of Nesta, Maldini, Zanetti, Stam or even Ramos plied their trade in England, they would have gone ahead to become the standard in football defense.

His Stat isn't even anywhere close to Vidic's and the world would never stop claiming he is the next best thing to slice bread. It was even only this past week he managed to pull 8 points in the FPL.

It is one reason I regard most English hyped players, particularly the ones carefully packaged by the media.

Van Dijk is good o but he is only an average player in my opinion. How they smuggled him into the Ballon D'Or in FIFA BEST in the first place beats my imagination. I honestly don't understand what the fuss is about a media hype being busted.

m140:

Mr leave the guy alone na, he don get him recorded wey both guys you mentioned here no get , bros you can't change that.... the guy don try i beg ....

Record he got by running from tackles bah?
Matip was his cover up.

kendrick93:
same ramos that regularly gets humiliated by Ronaldinho,messi, eto'o and average laliga attackers?
Or vidic who got regularly turned inside out by Fernando Torres?

That's the difference, those guys give all their all even if it means getting dribbled, or even red carded.

Freemanbobble:
Na defenders dey receive disgrace pass for football
Both who sabi play ball and who nor sabi play ball na im dey dribble defender
That is why if i want play ball I nor go ever play that position

I better be top 9
Or attacking midfielder
Or dey run from right and left flank

The one when Bros Messi do this guy ehnnnn
The world nor go ever forget and the world will never forget

Can also remember what Di Maria did to puyol. lol

Carsontyqa:
He's average sir.

And Sergio Ramos who resulted to dislocating somebody's shoulder and who's also a red card specialist, despite playing with top class defender is What? World Best, abi?

People don't realise the guy runs back to cover most times that's why they said he hasn't been dribbled past.


When you check his stats you know the guy is only good in positioning. People who rate him as the best defender are clueless and are football illiterates.

Its indeed a prove and honour to make headline just for being dribbled. That shows how much further he is from other defenders. Ramos is dribbled every week even at his peak but don't make headlines even Puyol. But VVD makes headlines even if u pass him.
THAT'S GREATNESS RIGHT THERE.
No wonder Kompany placed him as the best CB ever.
VVD still the BEAST