Trent Alexander-Arnold’s transfer saga has been the subject of plenty of discussion and criticism in recent weeks, but Virgil van Dijk was full of praise for Sunday’s goal hero, who has worked hard to get back to full fitness before the end of the season.
“I think we forget that we are dealing with a human being,” the Liverpool skipper said of Alexander-Arnold.
“Sometimes he goes through so many moments in the last couple of months and everyone will have an opinion on the way he’s obviously been.
“There’s a lot of noise around him and obviously everyone can argue if it’s his own fault, [but] it’s just part of life nowadays.
“So when he scores a big goal like that, I think he deserves applause for stepping up in that particular moment and to soak it all in because whether he stays or leaves, these are moments which you shouldn’t take for granted to give us as a team the opportunity to finish it off.
“So I think he deserved that moment and now it’s back to work and be ready for the weekend.”
