England vs Netherlands: Like playing with your child! Fans love van Dijk bossing Sterling
Liverpool fans love the moment star defender Virgil van Dijk bossed around Raheem Sterling as if he was playing football with a child.
Van Dijk and Sterling have been on opposite teams all season long and the Nations League brought those two together once more as the Reds man handed down a schooling.
The Manchester City star may have thought he was in with a chance of scoring when he picked the ball up inside the Dutch half after nipping it off the toes of van Dijk.
But the massive Liverpool man wasn’t going to let him get away with this sort of behaviour and recovered, put in a few big strides and muscled Sterling so far off the ball he may as well have been playing in Manchester.
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And despite the England loss, Liverpool fans are enjoying that moment – especially as van Dijk nudged former Red Sterling so easily off the ball.
Many of them are comparing the moment to when you let your son or little brother briefly have the football when you’re playing in the back yard, before ruthlessness takes over and you smash them into the flower bed and score yourself.
Marcus Rashford opened the scoring for the Three Lions thanks to a first half penalty before the Netherlands fought back thanks to Reds target Matthijs de Ligt.
Kyle Walker then scored a 97th minute own goal before Quincy Promes wrapped it all up in the 114th minute of the game.
And so it wasn’t the end Gareth Southgate would have asked for, but there are plenty of positives for the England manager to pull from that.
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van Dijk may have started for the Netherlands, but Southgate chose to leave the Liverpool Champions League legends on the bench. Jordan Henderson came on, but Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold kicked their heels on the sidelines all night.