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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ian Doyle

Everybody loves Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk as Manchester United duo blasted

There was one big question everyone was asking after Liverpool's win over Manchester United on Sunday.

How was it only 2-0?

Still, goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah were enough to move Jurgen Klopp's side 16 points clear at the Premier League summit with a game in hand.

Yours truly was again on ECHO ratings duty, and Gini Wijnaldum was given the nod as Liverpool's top performer with a big 9.

Van Dijk was among several players on 8, along with Alisson Becker, Jordan Henderson, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino.

None of the starters scored lower than a 7, although Adam Lallana was given a 6 from  the bench.

Feel a bit bad about that, to be honest.

What everyone else said

Of course, other ratings are available. And the national media were impressed with many Liverpool performers.

The Mirror ranked Van Dijk best on 8 with everyone else getting 7 apart from Alisson, who only registered 6.

The Mail do things by halves and led with Henderson on 8 ahead of Van Dijk on 7.5. Alexander-Arnold was lowest with 6.

Blood Red: Liverpool player ratings from 2-0 win over Manchester United

The Daily Star put Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk and Henderson top with 8.

The Express loved Alexander-Arnold and Gomez, with the pair notching 9. Robertson, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Firmino scored 8.

The Independent had Van Dijk and Wijnaldum ahead on 8 but Firmino, Mane, Robertson and Oxlade-Chamberlain registered just 6.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka of Manchester United in action with Georginio Wijnaldum of Liverpool (Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, The Times considered Firmino best on 9 with a clutch of players scoring 8.

Finally, the number-crunchers at WhoScored.com calculated Van Dijk top on 8.53 with Henderson next on 7.79.

Meanwhile, in Manchester...

Our colleagues at the Manchester Evening News weren't quite so thrilled with events at Anfield.

No player scored more than 6, while Victor Lindelof's 3 saw him described as being "all over the place and dithered for the disallowed Roberto Firmino goal" as well as  "comfortable and complacent almost every week".

Mind you, that was one rating better than Andreas Pereira, who was "so out of his depth he gives out-of-form Jesse Lingard hope".

Blimey.

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