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Liverpool's Van Dijk named PFA Player of Year


Mon 29 Apr 2019 | 01:09 PM
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Liverpool Defender Virgil van Dijk  Won Professional Footballers’ Association players of the year for the 2018-19 season, with Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling as best young player of the year.

Van Dijk defeated City’s Sterling to take the award after a brilliant season that has seen Jürgen Klopp’s side concede just 20 goals from their 36 matches so far. Further legitimizing the dutch's monstrous defensive skills.

Van Dijk, who moved to Anfield in January 2018 from Southampton for £75m, has helped Liverpool record 17 clean sheets this season and became only the fifth defender to receive the award after Norman Hunter, Colin Todd, Gary Pallister, Paul McGrath and John Terry.

From his side, Van Djik's teammate Mohamed Salah has congratulated his PFA Player of the Year successor on his achievement, but warned him that they need to keep the momentum going as they are still strangled in a tug of war with Man City on premier league supremacy in addition to Wednesday's titanic clash against Barcelona.