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<\/p>\nDefending champions City head into Sunday\u2019s away match with Brighton and Hove Albion a point better off than Liverpool, who play Wolves at Anfield.<\/p>\n
The Reds need to beat Wolves and hope Pep Guardiola\u2019s men drop points, if they are to win the title for the first time in the Premier League era.<\/p>\n
Van Dijk is refusing to give up hope, especially in a week that saw Liverpool recover from a three-goal deficit, to overcome Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate in their incredible Champions League semi-final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is on, but you have to be realistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way City have been playing all season everyone should expect them to win. But you never know and the only thing we can do is focus on beating Wolves, because that is a very big task as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone is talking about Brighton doing something, but we need to focus on what is in front of us because Wolves have been outstanding this season and make it difficult for any team. That\u2019s why they are where they are in the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019re at home, it\u2019s our last game of the season and we want to give everything we\u2019ve got, and we will. If we win we\u2019ve done our job, we will have done what we could do and then we will see what will happen at Brighton.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been showing throughout the whole season in moments that we never give up and keep going. We keep believing, doing the right things.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you have that bit of luck, but you\u2019ve got to keep doing the right things. This week was an outstanding week for us in the Champions League and we will see how Sunday will unfold,\u201d he told Sky Sports.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk, has warned Manchester City they cannot take anything for granted on the final day of the Premier League season. Defending champions City head into Sunday\u2019s away match with Brighton and Hove Albion a point better off than Liverpool, who play Wolves at Anfield. The Reds need to beat Wolves and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}