'Down to us' – Virgil van Dijk sends clear Liverpool demand after Como victory

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It was put to the 35 year old that it is pretty guaranteed that, whoever it is, he'll be alongside a new centre-back partner against Newcastle next weekend, after both Jérémy Jacquet and Ronald Araújo made their first appearances for the club against Como, having this to say: "I think he [Jacquet] did well, same as Ronald. He came out of a bit tired but that's obviously absolutely normal when it's first 45 minutes after such a long time, now it's down to him to recover.

We'll be back on the pitch tomorrow morning towards Newcastle at St James Park - always a tough one.""Jacquet was making his first appearance of pre-season, after requiring shoulder surgery back in February, thereby eased back into action by Iraola. It'll take a bit of time but that, in my opinion, is absolutely normal, hopefully we can get that going as quickly as possible.

So what you have to do, obviously at certain moments well all going to be a bit tired so it is down to us to make sure we are compact until we find the right moment to press again. It's a team game and we need everybody in order to do that.