Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk branded 'coward' in astonishing rant

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Virgil van Dijk has been branded a "coward". In an extraordinary outburst, former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley has claimed on ESPN that Van Dijk "has been as bad as anybody else" during Liverpool's challenging spell.Burley said: "I'm fed up sitting here and (listening to people saying) 'it's Mo Salah not playing well, Florian Wirtz can't find his feet, Alexander Isak, Ekitike, the midfield's dynamic has changed'.

He (Van Dijk) is the barometer of what is wrong this year."He is supposed to be the leader. Burley was particularly scathing about Van Dijk's display, stating: "He does everything wrong.

Burley believes it is 'crazy' that Van Dijk has escaped similar levels of criticism.Craig Burley fumed at Virgil van Dijk. He (Van Dijk) seems to be coming out of it relatively unscathed, and it is everybody else's fault."But for me, at the back, he has been as bad as anybody else.