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Liverpool · 2023/24

Virgil van Dijk

npxG per 90
0.09
2 non-penalty goals
xA per 90
0.05
2 assists · 11 key passes
Finishing
-1.1
vs league conversion rate
Build-up per 90
0.50
3177 minutes · 36 games

Virgil van Dijk ranks 231st of 402 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 12.2m on average, with 99% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 3% of Liverpool’s attacking output, the 11th largest share in the squad.

This week

Next fixture

Gameweek 2

vs Nottingham Forest

Sat 29 Aug, 11:30 UTC

Nottingham Forest concede 13.4 shots a match and are 0.76× the league norm against defenders. A difficult one.

Projected shots
1.10

1.27 per 90 × 0.86

Projected on target
0.35

0.40 per 90 × 0.89

Season rate multiplied by what this opponent concedes relative to the league. It assumes a full ninety minutes and takes no account of rotation, so check availability before reading anything into it.

Shots

36 appearances
  • Over 0.569%± 8
  • Over 1.531%± 8
  • Over 2.517%± 6
  • Over 3.56%± 4

Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 11 of 36 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.

Shots on target

36 appearances
  • Over 0.528%± 7
  • Over 1.511%± 5
  • Over 2.50%± 0

Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 11 of 36 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.

Where the shots come from

Where they shoot

45 shots
Every shotBy zone
Opponent goalLeftRight
GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals

Virgil van Dijk, 2023/24 · 44 shots in the final 35m, 2 scored. Shape carries the outcome rather than colour, so it reads in print and to anyone who cannot separate the hues.

left
9%
Centre
87%
right
3%

share of their shooting xG

Chance quality

xG per shot, distance, how they arrive
xG per shot
0.073
Shots per 90
1.27
Key passes per 90
0.31
Average shot distance
12.2m
From set pieces
99%

How their chances arrive

Crosses
0%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
0%
Headed
0%

What they are for

Roles

penalties, set pieces, crossing, partnerships
  • Corners and set piecesSupplies 7% of Liverpool’s dead-ball danger, from 6 deliveries that became shots.
  • On the pitch93% of the minutes available to them.

Partnerships

  • Feeds Diogo Jota1 shot, 0.73 xG
  • Feeds Cody Gakpo2 shots, 0.48 xG
  • Fed by Trent Alexander-Arnold13 shots, 1.26 xG
  • Fed by Andrew Robertson13 shots, 1.14 xG

A share of the attack says how much runs through Virgil van Dijk. These say what would have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker or the corner deliverer is not the same as losing a proportional slice of output, and a partnership cuts both ways: the supplier being absent damages the finisher’s numbers too.

Who they play with

Chances received

who supplies them
  1. Trent Alexander-Arnold1.3 xG13 shots · 1g
  2. Andrew Robertson1.1 xG13 shots · 0g
  3. Dominik Szoboszlai0.2 xG6 shots · 0g
  4. Konstantinos Tsimikas0.1 xG3 shots · 0g
  5. Alexis Mac Allister0.1 xG2 shots · 1g

Chances created

who they supply
  1. Diogo Jota0.7 xG1 shot · 1g
  2. Cody Gakpo0.5 xG2 shots · 1g
  3. Mohamed Salah0.4 xG2 shots · 0g
  4. Ibrahima Konaté0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
  5. Dominik Szoboszlai0.1 xG3 shots · 0g

Season record

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Virgil van Dijk carries 9.0% of Liverpool’s build-up value.

  • Build-up per 900.499
    84% of defenders
  • Possession value per 900.512
    81% of defenders

Ranked against 135 defenders with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance. It is a possession-value measure rather than a passing one: it cannot tell a forty-yard carry from two sideways balls, because no pass or carry record exists in this data.

Match log

most recent first
  • vs Wolverhampton Wanderers
    5 shots2 OT
  • vs Tottenham
    2 shots0 OT
  • at West Ham
    2 shots0 OT
  • at Everton
    2 shots1 OT
  • vs Crystal Palace
    4 shots0 OT
  • vs Sheffield United
    1 shot1 OT
  • vs Manchester City
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Luton1g
    2 shots2 OT
  • at Brentford
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Burnley
    1 shot1 OT

Solid marks are on target, faded ones off. 11 further appearances produced no shot and are not listed, but are counted in the rates above.

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