Liverpool’s relentless desire was on full display once again in Wednesday’s thrilling 3-2 victory over Atletico Madrid – a performance that played a major role in convincing Jeremie Frimpong to join the club.
The full-back has made a flying start to life on Merseyside, with his new side winning all five of their opening games this season, each featuring its fair share of late drama.
This time it was Virgil van Dijk who delivered the decisive moment, heading home in the 92nd minute to secure three points in the Champions League group-stage opener.
Van Dijk’s intervention was needed after Marco Llorente struck twice to wipe out Liverpool’s early advantage, earned when Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah both scored inside the opening six minutes.
He said: “It’s part of football, sometimes you score [in the] last minute. I’ve had a lot of last-minute [goals] in my career so far, obviously with Leverkusen. But the most important thing is that we won. I think we deserved to win.
“We were the better team, played really well.
“Exactly. In a match you never know when you’re going to score. Of course in football you’d like to score earlier but sometimes it doesn’t work like that. Like I said, it’s part of football. Sometimes you score late, sometimes you score early. It’s just like that.
“Of course. I feel like when you’re 2-0 up, of course we want to keep the lead or score more. But it’s the Champions League, we’re playing Atletico Madrid, of course we can do better to stop it but it’s football.
“This is why I came to Liverpool. Liverpool is a winning team, they know how to win trophies and that’s what I want to do.”
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