Virgil van Dijk admitted Liverpool were lucky to escape Sunday’s meeting with Manchester United with a draw.
Despite going into the game as huge favourites, Liverpool were outplayed for large parts of a stunning 2-2 draw and they were lucky to see Harry Maguire’s shot over the bar in the seventh minute of added time.
It was a missed opportunity for Liverpool climb further in the Premier League title race, with Arsenal and Chelsea both dropping points earlier in the weekend, and Van Dijk admitted the Reds should just be relieved to have picked up a point themselves.
“It could have been a lot worse if we were completely honest with ourselves,” Van Dijk reflected after the game.
“They had a great chance at the end which could have been a lot worse than where we are now. I’m definitely disappointed to drop the points at home but it is what it is and we have to move on and we will.
“We found 2-1 and then it’s about trying to control the game and keep the ball longer than three and four passes. Sometimes we lost the ball too easily and then we were more open than we should have been. “I’m not perfect, still we learn and must learn from this.”
Van Dijk denied suggestions that the pre-match stories surrounding the two clubs ultimately showed Liverpool had been underestimated United.
“It’s all the media,” he said. “Media story.
“It has nothing to do with us. We prepared for a very difficult game like we saw today. We didn’t think about it.”
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