Just two days after celebrating Liverpool’s Champions League triumph in riotous fashion with roughly 750,000 Liverpudlian’s lining the city’s streets, international compatriots Virgil van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum have shown up for international duty ahead of the Netherlands’ UEFA Nations League semifinal match against England on June 6.
They’re probably both still a little hungover, so the rapturous noise that was created by the rest of the squad upon the reunion probably made their brains rattle inside their skulls.
But this is an excellent example of Holland’s growing team strength after a disastrous period that included failure to qualify for Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup.
Still, you wonder what this little celebration felt like for Barcelona goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen and the Ajax quartet of Matthijs de Ligt, Daley Blind, Donny van de Beek and Frenkie de Jong. It probably stung about as badly as the Liverpool pair’s hangover.
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