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Worryingly for many Liverpool fans, Virgil van Dijk was forced to leave the pitch during the FA Cup final after picking up an injury.

“I felt in the first-half when I did a sprint after 20 minutes or something, I felt a little twinge behind my knee but I played on.



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We’ll just have to wait and see when he can return and hopefully the captain of Holland will be fit for the Champions League final, if not before.



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It’s certainly not great to hear that our No.4 has a pain in his knee, especially after missing so much of last season with a major knee injury.

Speaking with ITV Sport, the 30-year-old said: “Hopefully I’m well but we’re going to check it out.