Gabby Agbonlahor believes Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk had an air of arrogance about him in Saturday’s 4-3 win over Leeds. The Reds looked typically frightening going forward. Speaking to talkSPORT about the latter incident, Agbonlahor questioned whether Van Dijk can yet be considered among the greatest defenders in Premier League history. “Everyone knows Virgil van Dijk is an unbelievable defender,” the former Aston Villa striker said. “On the ball he can switch the diagonals, and defensively no one wants to come up against him. But I felt yesterday’s performance was, from Van Dijk, arrogant; that flick he made in the goal he gave away, it felt like ‘we are playing Leeds United, it’s going to be an easy game and I can let my standards drop’. “And in that game, he did [let his standards drop]. Even Trent Alexander-Arnold on the right was poor defensively as well. Van Dijk is a great defender, and he will be one of the greatest defenders to ever play the game. But when people start putting him in the Vincent Kompany and Rio Ferdinand bracket, I think people forget how good certain players were as time goes by.” “People forget how good Rio Ferdinand was in his prime; you wouldn’t even want to go on the same side of the pitch as him!” Agbonlahor added. “It was the same with Kompany, and John Terry as well; you just wouldn’t want to take them on as you’d have no chance. Virgil van Dijk is an amazing defender, but you can’t put him in that category of Rio Ferdinand and Vincent Kompany yet.”
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