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| Liverpool FC star Virgil van Dijk with Jamie Carragher |
Liverpool FC have also beaten Portuguese giants FC Porto and
Premier League champions Manchester City in the Champions League
knockout stage.
Jurgen Klopp’s side will take on the current holders after Real
Madrid were 4-1 winners against Serie A giants Juventus at the
Millennium Stadium last term.
Los Blancos have won the competition two times in the past
three seasons under Zinedine Zidane to underline their dominance in the
Champions League.
Speaking to Liverpool FC’s website about the prospect of taking on the 13-time European Cup winners, Van Dijk was bullish about the Reds’ chances.
“They’ve won three of the last four,” Van Dijk said.
“They have experience, they have so much quality.
“We need to look at them, but the main thing is to look at ourselves.
I’ve said it before, we’re not here for no reason – we deserve to be
here.
“We need to show that as well on the pitch: be brave, do our thing,
do what we normally do. It’s a one-off game, but we need to just be
confident and show what we’re good at.
“Only the Roma away game we’ve lost in the Champions League, so that
says a lot. The way we play, if everyone is 100 per cent and the tactics
are spot-on, then we can make it difficult for any team.
“They are experienced in these kind of games, they have played these
type of games in the last few years. For us, it’s a little bit new, but
that doesn’t matter really. We just need to play our game and be ready
for anything that’s possible. I think we will be.”
Liverpool haven’t won the Champions League since 2005 when the Reds
beat AC Milan on penalties after coming from 3-0 down in Istanbul.
The Merseyside outfit were 1-0 winners against Real Madrid in their only previous meeting in the European Cup final in 1984.
Liverpool FC finished in fourth place ahead of Chelsea FC in the Premier League table this season.
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