Virgil van Dijk plays football so effortlessly.
Not literally, of course, because the Liverpool star no doubt puts in the hard yards and then some, but there’s just something about the way in which he glides around the pitch that makes it look as though he’s not even breaking a sweat.
It’s not just the Dutchman’s flowing locks that look majestic, but also each slide-tackle, header, sprint and – perhaps most impressively of all – pass that he plays.
Van Dijk’s effortless style
The days of centre-backs simply being big old lumps who throw their head in front of everything and cannon the ball into Row Z every 10 seconds is long gone.
In are the days of ball-playing defenders who have it in their arsenal to sprint like Thierry Henry, read the play like Andrea Pirlo and pass the ball like Steven Gerrard.
And while, don’t worry, we’re not saying that Van Dijk has mastered those skills to quite that standard, his outrageous ability to spray the ball all over the pitch shows that he’s just about as close as a centre-back has ever gotten to achieving it in modern football.
This is, after all, the man who came just a whisker away from winning the 2019 Ballon d’Or.
And Liverpool fans will back us up because there have been plenty of examples where Van Dijk has taken off the handbrake and decided to start attacks all by himself with a stunning pass from deep.
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Van Dijk’s epic pass vs RB Leipzig
In fact, that was actually the case as recently as Thursday with Van Dijk showing the world that he’s just as peerless as ever with a pitch-traversing pass that looked as though it didn’t cost him a cent of energy.
During the 5-0 win over RB Leipzig where Darwin Nunez helped himself to four goals, Liverpool’s star defender decided that a superhuman pass from the edge of his own penalty area was the order of the day.
Spotting a trademark run from Mohamed Salah down the right wing, Van Dijk proved that football is just too easy for him sometimes by playing the ball perfecting into his path in one fell swoop.
It even created a brilliant goalscoring opportunity with Salah duly running through one-on-one with the goalkeeper and forcing a save.
It’s hard to know for certain, but average pitch measurements would have us believe that Van Dijk’s epic pass spanned no less than 70 yards, so be sure to do yourselves a favour and check it out down below:
These passes from Virgil get better every time 😮💨 pic.twitter.com/T9PyuHX37z
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Van Dijk is such a mood, you’ve got to love him.
As silky as they come
We like to think that if ‘VVD’ was, say, a mixologist that he’d be juggling the spirit bottles like it was nothing, or throwing envelopes through letter boxes from the next door neighbour’s garden if he was a postman.
Regardless of what you might think about Van Dijk’s standing amongst the greatest defenders of the modern era, you can’t help loving the ‘Rolls Royce’ style that he’s championed to make playing at centre-half cooler than ever.
And while even his most ardent of supporters wouldn’t go so far as to compare his passing to that of Gerrard, there’s no denying that the Liverpool icon himself would be proud of Van Dijk’s latest gem.
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2022-07-22 09:16:50Z
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