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'Van Dijk is the complete centre-back and Konate is doing really well'

Van Dijk and Matip have been able to re-establish their impressive centre-half partnership this season, with the No.4 slotting back into the Reds' line-up after missing most of 2020-21 with a knee injury.

Konate, meanwhile, kept back-to-back clean sheets in his first two competitive starts for Jürgen Klopp's side, having arrived from RB Leipzig in the summer.

"It has been great for me to play alongside Virgil again," Matip said in October's issue of the Liverpool FC magazine. "It was a long time for him to be out and I am really happy to see him back on the pitch.