Virgil van Dijk fresh from imperious performances against Inter Milan and Norwich City, sits in a room at the sleek new Liverpool training ground in Kirkby and listens to the question. It is a little simplistic but he listens anyway.
‘Are you back to your best?’ He laughs gently at it and even though he is not the type of man to nurse anger, there is a tinge of resentment in that laugh.
‘How would you determine “my best”?’ he says. So I mention the 39th minute of the game at San Siro 10 days ago.