{"id":436,"date":"2026-04-19T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=436"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:25:14","slug":"massive-mo-salah-and-virgil-van-dijk-on-winning-merseyside-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Massive&#8217; &#8211; Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk on winning Merseyside derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>On not having many matches left to play for the Reds\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salah: <\/strong>No, but I wish I just keep scoring and help the team at least to achieve Champions League (qualification) this season. And hopefully I (say) farewell in the right way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On this victory being a boost for securing Champions League qualification\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Dijk: <\/strong>One hundred per cent. We\u2019ve got five more games left against teams that are also fighting for the Champions League spots. Every game is a big one. Like I said, we are very disappointed as a whole for the season that we\u2019re having, because of the quality we have \u2013 it\u2019s below standards. But we have to keep fighting, keep going and make the best out of this difficult, poor season that we\u2019re having. That\u2019s the reality. Onto the next. Today was a good three points and next up is Crystal Palace at home, (who) we couldn\u2019t beat for many, many games so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Wrong\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Dijk: <\/strong>There will be a lot of words coming out of my mouth over the next couple of weeks on him. But listen, he is so important for us, on and off the pitch. I would say, the appreciation sometimes comes a little bit when players are gone, but we appreciate him so much. He is an outstanding teammate to have, obviously we have been through everything together; highs, lows. He will still be important for the last five games that we have to play and then it will be emotional for him and his family, for sure. But for us as well, because he meant a lot to me, a lot to the team and to the fans of course. But first, we have still a job to do and he knows it \u2013 that\u2019s the main focus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On not having many matches left to play for the Reds\u2026 Salah: No, but I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}