Virgil van Dijk has warned Manchester City that his Liverpool side will be even better this season, after they missed out on the Premier League title by a single point in 2018/19.
Liverpool's 97 points last season was the third highest points total in Premier League history, but City have recorded the two highest tallies in the last two years to win consecutive titles.
However, Van Dijk insists that Liverpool won't suffer a hangover from that disappointment as they accept City were the better team.
And the commanding centre-back says Jurgen Klopp's are working hard to eradicate last season's mistakes and lift the title in May.
He said: “It’s not that we’re not going to try this year, it’s not that we’re going away. We’re going to try to do even better than we did last year.
“It’s going to be very hard because Man City will be stronger again, the other teams will be stronger again as well (as) they try to get to that level too.
“To lose it that close was disappointing at the time, but I could put it away straight away because the fact is that they were just a little bit better back then.
“If people say that we could’ve done better then they are wrong, I think.
“We only lost one game in the whole season. The only thing was that City were just a little bit better. We have to respect that.”
