Virgil van Dijk makes 'tough' Nottingham Forest admission and comments on City Ground atmosphere

Virgil van Dijk said that the expectation on Liverpool, along with the atmosphere at the City Ground, made it "tough" for Jurgen Klopp's men against Nottingham Forest.

Diogo Jota’s second-half strike gave Liverpool a narrow 1-0 victory in the FA Cup quarter-final. But Forest gave their Premier League visitors a number of scares throughout the game.

Forest went into the game looking to cause their third upset of the competition after wins over Premier League sides Arsenal and Leicester City in the third and fourth rounds. And van Dijk said that being the favourites to go through wouldn’t have helped Liverpool.

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“Obviously they had quite a good run until today, so we were prepared. It’s one of those games you can’t really do it too well – everyone expects you to win because we are the Premier League side, we are Liverpool,” he told the club’s official website. “So we had to stay focused, stay positive and stay patient,