By Harry Slavin For Mailonline
Published: 07:25 BST, 8 May 2019 | Updated: 07:25 BST, 8 May 2019
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Virgil van Dijk insists he did not care that Liverpool were written off before their Champions League semi-final second-leg against Barcelona — because he and his team-mates believed in the unthinkable all along.
Jurgen Klopp's men produced the greatest night Anfield has ever seen under the lights, coming back from their 3-0 first-leg defeat at the Nou Camp to win 4-0 and secure a place in the final.
It was an outcome that nobody had forseen before kick-off, former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho saying that he 'wouldn't bet one single coin on Liverpool' before kick off.
Virgil van Dijk insists that he always believed Liverpool were capable of a dramatic comeback
But two goals apiece from Divock Origi and Gini Wijnaldum saw the Reds produce the impossible. Not that Van Dijk ever saw it that way.
'I don’t care that others didn’t give us a chance,' he told reporters. 'I said it