{"id":2115,"date":"2025-12-16T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:16:05","slug":"liverpool-united-as-one-after-salah-return-van-dijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool &#8216;united as one&#8217; after Salah return &#8211; Van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Captain Virgil van Dijk says\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0&#8220;are absolutely united and go forward as one&#8221; after Mohamed Salah returned to the squad for\u00a0Saturday&#8217;s win over Brighton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salah came off the bench for his first\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0appearance since claiming after last weekend&#8217;s 3-3 draw with Leeds that he had been &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; by the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tiwa Savage - You4Me (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JF3aUxOWgwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 33-year-old was left out of the squad for the midweek Champions League win at Inter Milan, but returned for the Brighton game following talks with manager Arne Slot &#8211; and claimed an assist in the 2-0 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salah joins up with the Egypt national team for the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on Monday and could miss up to eight\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0games if his country go all the way to the final on 18 January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We showed this week that we are absolutely united. 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