{"id":56996,"date":"2024-11-03T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-results-have-been-good-van-dijk-speaks-on-liverpool-winning-title-this-season\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T06:05:18","slug":"epl-results-have-been-good-van-dijk-speaks-on-liverpool-winning-title-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-results-have-been-good-van-dijk-speaks-on-liverpool-winning-title-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Results have been good \u2013 Van Dijk speaks on Liverpool winning title this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk, has opened up on the Reds\u2019 race to win the Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n<p>He said while it might be too early to say that the Reds are in the Premier League title race, they want to remain top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk said this after helping his side come from behind to beat Brighton 2-1 at Anfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdi Kadioglu had given the Seagulls the lead in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool equalised in the 69th minute through Cody Gakpo while Mohammed Salah scored the winner three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The win saw Liverpool return to the table\u2019s summit following Arsenal and Manchester City\u2019s loss to Newcastle United and Bournemouth respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk refused to get too excited with the turn of events.<\/p>\n<p>He said via Mirror, \u201cIt\u2019s too early to even make it important. We want to be on top of the league but we want to be there after the last match in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results have been good so far this season but there is a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Reds face Aston Villa next at home in the league on Saturday, November 9, before the international break.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Results have been good \u2013 Van Dijk speaks on Liverpool winning title this season<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk, has opened up on the Reds\u2019 race to win the Premier League title this season.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1030,15,160,7104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-liverpool","category-news","category-sport","category-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}