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Virgil van Dijk

Virgil van Dijk

The Belgium global completed a £75m move to Manchester United from their Premier League rivals Everton in the 2017 summer transfer window.

Lovren has struck up a good rapport with Virgil van Dijk since the £75 million (S$136.3 million) signing's arrival in January and believes the support of everyone at Liverpool helped with his recovery.

Liverpool fans must have fancied their chances of beating Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, and understandably so. Not in a bad way, but I was thinking about it for the next two games like, 'Should I have played it at the first post?' At the end of the day, you want to win, so when you are in a situation where you can make your team win, and you don't, it stays in your mind. If they win, they go ahead of us by one point, so it's going to be an important game for both of us. Sky sports interview. I think the work rate I'm delivering to the team is a lot wa ha ha ha ha.

'I'm definitely looking forward to it and I can't wait for it to start, ' he added.

"It's massive - the reactions I've had already from fans, [I know] it's such a big game", he explained.

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Van Dijk was involved in a number of Old Firm derbies during his time and Celtic and admits he can not wait to play in the hostile atmosphere at Old Trafford. "I always put that in front of my personal objectives and he knows that, and I think that's the reason why I'm playing all the time".

"At the moment, when you see the run we're on - we've had fantastic results over the last six or seven games with four or five clean sheets - I think everyone within the squad feels comfortable and full of confidence", the Croatia global said.

"This club will do what we have to do, the owners are ready for that". "But this year, I had the dry spell in November and December, where there was a gap, and now things are becoming even better".

Watch Lovren and van Dijk's interview above.

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