Virgil van Dijk calls on Liverpool to summon spirit of Barcelona as new dressing room message shared

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Starts with the belief that we get from our manager, the right game plan, and the intensity that we have to put in from the second one to the last if you really want to achieve something."That's what I want. We have to show it.

We have show the desire, show the fight - that's the least you have to do as a Liverpool player."Sixteen defeats (this season) - it's unacceptable. But the reality is it is like that, and you have to own up to it, deal with it, and improve it."Van Dijk added: "I think our performance against Galatasaray very recently... obviously, it's a different quality team that we face with all due respect."But also the game we played against them (PSG) last year.

Obviously, with the way they play with a lot of rotations, six players or even more, eight players, not fixed in one position."They go everywhere, from (Achraf) Hakimi who goes from right back to left wing, or Mendes from left back to number 10 or whatever, so you have to follow, you have to find your moment to press."I think we could have done better in that sense because there were moments that we could have done much better so that's something that we need to start to analyse so that we have a better plan for creating opportunities on Tuesday."I think if you look at that game at the weekend, then things couldn't get much worse today. Not that is the mentality, of course, but I think we have the players that can play in the system."I don't think up until the (first) goal - and it was early on with a massive deflection - there were any issues, but then you have to try and stay calm, and wait for all the opportunities, and they didn't come."That's also the reality, I don't think we had one show on target, so that's obviously not good at all.