{"id":522549,"date":"2025-10-23T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522549\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:03:11","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-named-in-champions-league-team-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522549\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk named in Champions League Team of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Virgil van Dijk named in Champions League Team of the Week\" title=\"Virgil van Dijk named in Champions League Team of the Week\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/virgil-van-dijk-ucl-team-of-the-week-23102025_454098d05fc5642f959e7662d1ed5369.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 31 minutes ago <\/p>\n<p>By Sam Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has been named in the Champions League Team of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk scored with a thumping header to put his team 2-1 up against Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>After falling 1-0 down at Deutsche Bank Park, the Reds equalised through Hugo Ekitike prior to Van Dijk putting them ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahima Konate increased the advantage before the break, with Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai also getting on the scoresheet in the second half to complete a comprehensive 5-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The win leaves Arne Slot\u2019s side on six points from three games in this season\u2019s league phase, with an Anfield meeting with Real Madrid next up on Tuesday November 4.<\/p>\n<p>You have to accept cookies in order to view this content on our site.<\/p>\n<p>Manage Settings <\/p>\n<p>Published 31 minutes ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 31 minutes ago By Sam Williams Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has been named in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-522549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115424330118022317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}