Turkish media grateful as Virgil van Dijk singles out only Galatasaray hero

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The Liverpool star felt that his team could have won by even more had it not been for Galatasaray's star man.READ MORE: PSG could get major advantage over Liverpool as postponement option emergesREAD MORE: Virgil van Dijk delivers Anfield crowd verdict after recent Liverpool criticism"I think we could have scored many more goals, but the Galatasaray goalkeeper, despite conceding four goals, still put in a very good performance," Van Dijk said."We suffered both of our defeats against Galatasaray away. Today, however, we were at home and performed well."Liverpool looked at its most free-flowing in attack in this game, with Mohamed Salah performing well and Florian Wirtz cropping up all over the field despite starting on the left.Liverpool head coach Arne Slot and his assistant Sipke Hulshoff react during the Champions League match against Galatasaray at Anfield on March 18, 2026(Image: Carl Recine/Getty Images)"Yeah, but it's not as simple as you think to say, 'OK, if you can bring this tonight, you can bring this effort every single game you have'," Arne Slot insisted when asked if this was the formula for future success."There's an opponent to play against, there's a style of play.

I think it's fair to say for me — especially for all of you because you are following Liverpool so many times — that Anfield and the players can also rise to the occasion."I think there have been many, many, many moments or parts of games where we showed this but usually we have 10 minutes where we drop down a little bit or the other team takes over and that's 99 out of 100 times have been the moments where we conceded because that's the first chance of them and they scored.Get LFC's 2025/26 season home and away kitsThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. So yeah, we would like us to perform every single time at this level."Unfortunately, for the fifth, sixth time now, I think that we only get two days' rest to go to Brighton, early kick-off.

You see more and more players get injured in this period of time because it's such a tight schedule."We should have [been] given a bit more rest but that hasn't happened a lot to us this season. I hope this is the standard we are looking for, so let's see if we can bring that every single time from now on."