A point that everyone seems to be forgetting. Sissoko should score that and if he had done we wouldn't be reading anything about what van Dijk did or didn't do as the reality was he could only do so much in that situation. Yes, what he did, he did correctly, and he was right to force Sissoko to shoot and prevent the pass to Son, but there's some crazy hyperbole about his actions as if he has reinvented the art of defending. Force an attacking player wide and cut off a passing option, it's more rudimentary defending rather than from the school of Maldini. I could probably pick a handful of instances from yesterday's game alone that attest far more to van Dijk's ability than this incident, yet oddly this is what some people are obsessed with. I can recall a challenge he did when it was 1-0 following a cross from the left-hand side that displayed far more defensive nous than his closing down of Sissoko.