Virgil van Dijk's passionate 'relegation battle' message after Liverpool win

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"Even in good times, you have to still keep going and don't take our foot off the gas," the Liverpool captain told TNT Sports."What I've noticed over the last few weeks is that there's a lot of noise that you have no control over and we have to deal with that as a team. We are not going out on the pitch to lose games or leave fans disappointed, we want to work our socks off and win games.

We have to stay away from that and focus on the hard work we are doing."Last season, we did some negative stuff but everything was all sunshine and rainbows everywhere. "Maybe we were a bit more on the lucky side than we've been in the last few weeks, where in my opinion we were also unlucky," he added."So, the mistake of their goalkeeper and the deflection led to two of our goals.

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