Virgil van Dijk has insisted that Liverpool did not have one eye on PSG during the first half of its Premier League game with Southampton this weekend, with Harvey Elliott coming off the bench to make an impact once again.

Luckily football is more than just 45 minutes and you could clearly see, the second half was outstanding, from the first second to the last."

Arne Slot admitted in his post-game press conference that he didn't "give the [players] compliments at half-time".

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"I think he wasn’t happy and he had every right to (not be)," Van Dijk told reporters as Slot walked behind him.

"But like I said, we are all human beings and we had no intention to play the first half like we did.

"No one wants to play the first half as we did but sometimes, as footballers and (because of) the opponent, you have a first half like we did today.

"Very pleased for him," Van Dijk said of Elliott, who netted the winner against PSG a few days earlier too