Van Dijk: 'Fabinho is like Inspector Gadget, his legs are everywhere'

Following Liverpool's 3-0 win over the Clarets, Virgil van Dijk has piled praise on the Reds midfield trio, particularly highlighting Fabinho's performance.

"Fabinho is like Inspector Gadget," the Dutchman jokingly told Sky Sports. "He’s everywhere, his legs are everywhere. The long ball challenges, as centre-backs we wanted to go for that today, we didn’t want our midfielders going for it. 

"The three midfielders we wanted to win the second ball and then start to attack. When they whip it into the channels we need our midfielders there. We prepared really well.

"If you look at the goals we’ve conceded so far we should’ve done better but it’s nothing to do with us pushing up more deliberately."