Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk insists they can not afford to get carried away with reaching the Carabao Cup remaining having realized painful classes from final season.
A 12 months in the past the staff had been additionally nonetheless preventing on 4 fronts and Van Dijk scored the winner within the Wembley remaining to carry his first trophy as captain but it surely was not the springboard they hoped it will be in Jurgen Klopp’s remaining few months on the membership.
An FA Cup exit at Manchester United in mid-March was adopted by a dangerous 3-0 residence quarter-final defeat to Atalanta which ended their Europa League curiosity and after that their title problem crumbled in April.
“We had been in 4 competitions this time final 12 months, no? Final 12 months it didn’t assist,” he stated when requested whether or not profitable the League Cup can be good for his or her different challenges.
“You attempt to win every sport like so hopefully will probably be completely different however you noticed final 12 months we couldn’t get the job performed and the opposite two (Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal) had been significantly better ultimately.
“We now have put ourselves in a superb place, bodily, mentally, points-wise, however we’re in February and I’m undoubtedly not pondering what may very well be there, both after March 16 or finish of Might.
“Successful is at all times a fantastic feeling and you shouldn’t take any of that with no consideration.
“However with the video games that we’ve what we must always under no circumstances get carried away.”
Head coach Arne Slot has reached the League Cup remaining in his first season, as predecessor Jurgen Klopp did in his, however with the staff holding a six-point lead on the prime of the Premier League and progress secured to the final 16 of the Champions League the Dutchman didn’t want a Wembley look to validate his strategies.
Nonetheless, Van Dijk believes it helps meet the excessive expectations that are positioned on the membership.
“I believe it’s vital for everybody as a result of we work so exhausting every day with a view to get success and clearly to take part in each competitors to try to win it,” he added.
“That’s what we do as a membership as from the surface world, from our buddies and we as nicely, we’re anticipated to do, compete till the final day.
“We all know how tough it’s however we’re in an excellent place. Clearly final 12 months after we went into the ultimate we had quite a lot of accidents so hopefully we will get everybody match to play an element in attempting to win a really tough sport that we’ve to play.”
