paita ruotsiksi
Description
Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk accepts his performances will always come under scrutiny following his serious knee injury but he heads into the new season in a better place than 12 months ago.
Last summer the Holland captain was finalising his rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament surgery which kept him out for 10 months, with his readiness for the start of the campaign still in doubt.
Not only did he make the opening match of the Premier League season, he started 51 of Liverpool's 63 games and was named in the team of the season.
This time around he feels he can concentrate on just reaching peak fitness at the club's training camp in Austria ahead of Saturday's Community Shield clash against Manchester City in Leicester.
Liverpool won an FA and Carabao Cup double last season, reached the Champions League final and took the title race into the final 10 minutes of the campaign.
It was a season in which they played every match they were eligible for and while that may seem like a one-off, Van Dijk said the plan was to target everything again.
The Wall