Speaking on the Footballer’s Football Podcast, Michail Antonio has been speaking about Liverpool’s loss to Leeds and Virgil van Dijk losing his unbeaten Anfield record.
The Dutch defender went almost five years without losing a game at home for Liverpool, but that record was left in tatters after a late goal by Crysencio Summerville at the weekend.
Antonio says that he would be fuming if he was in van Dijk’s shoes, stating that he’d be contemplating why he was at the club if he was the defender.
Van Dijk fuming
Antonio gave his viewpoint on the centre-back losing his record.
“Virgil lost his first game at home. I would be fuming, I would be like ‘oh why didn’t I leave last summer?’” Antonio said.
I think some of them feel like that. Football is cyclical and I think this team has come to the end of its cycle. They have been amazing for five years but it’s the natural evolution of the team,” Antonio’s co-host said.
Crushed
We can only imagine how deflated van Dijk feels after losing his unbeaten record at Anfield.
This is a record that looked like it was never going to be broken, and this was the Dutchman’s chance to truly write himself into the history books.
Just imagine if van Dijk had retired without ever losing a game at Anfield. He would’ve been recognised as one of the Premier League’s greatest ever, but now his chance of having that record has been and gone.
As Antonio says, perhaps van Dijk is thinking that he should have left Liverpool in the summer so that his record would’ve remained forever untarnished.
The Liverpool star has suffered a huge setback here and he needs to figure out how to bounce back.
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