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Virgil van Dijk scored a late Liverpool winner.(Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Virgil van Dijk's late header to seal a 2-1 win over West Ham United on Sunday means Liverpool require just six points now to become Premier League champions.

Few saw this coming when the hosts serenely took the lead 70 minutes earlier.

"That followed 60 seconds to affirm why Liverpool have committed another £50 million to keep Mohamed Salah.



Van Dijk headed in Alexis Mac Allister’s 89th-minute corner, leading by authority, marking his 100th Premier League game as captain by taking his team to the brink of the title.

'I would love to play with him next season.'

The Daily Mirror's Andy Dunn writes: "After Virgil van Dijk had become involved in a tangle with Andy Robertson, leading to West Ham United’s late equaliser, the Scot screamed his disapproval at the Liverpool captain.

Unfortunately for young Ollie Scarles, most of those demonstrations came at his expense, including the key moment inside 20 minutes that set up a Liverpool victory that can set the engraver to work on the Premier League trophy."

And in the ECHO's verdict, we dedicate much of the report to Van Dijk and his match-winning, almost title-clinching intervention.

"If Liverpool's march toward the Premier League title has lacked one thing, a winning goal from the captain at the Kop End might just about have ticked the final box en route to No.20.

So having played his part of a defensive mix-up that allowed West Ham United to pilfer a deserved equaliser, it was fitting that Virgil van Dijk provided the game's defining moment.

"Liverpool are now 13 points clear at the top, with this 2-1 win at Anfield putting them within a half dozen points of a second title in five years and, with the struggling pair of Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur to come, Arne Slot and his players might even be Premier League champions before April is even out.

"Van Dijk's late header, from Alexis Mac Allister's corner, was his first in the league since the 2-2 draw at Arsenal in late October and it was celebrated riotously after supporters had been racked with anxiety as the game drifted from the leaders.

"The skipper, who is on the cusp on a new contract, marked the vital winner by kissing the badge on his chest in front of the fans.
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