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It is the fixture list from hell, but Virgil van Dijk has one simple message about the madness about to engulf Liverpool : ‘Bring it on’.

The Reds could play 16 games in 56 days between April 2 and May 28, should they reach the Champions League and FA Cup finals, with the first eight already guaranteed in an insane April. Yet Anfield icon Van Dijk says that far from worrying about the intensity of a programme that will see them play every three days over the next month, the entire Liverpool squad wants it - because it is what they signed up for.

“Hopefully this will happen every season!” he said with a smile after an FA Cup quarter-final win over Nottingham Forest sent them back to Wembley for the second time in this remarkable campaign. “Obviously, this is something we will want first and foremost - it’s something you should enjoy, these nights when you have everything to fight for. That is what we want.

“I think everyone, not even the younger guys, but all of us, should just enjoy it. Of course it’s tough, because you always want to play as well as you can, and there are moments when you can’t. These moments always happen, but you just give it your all, enjoy the moment and focus again on the next big challenge. We are