London — Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has said he and his team mates need to improve their form as they prepare to host Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League on Wednesday. They go into the game after a 1-0 Premier League win at Huddersfield Town in which they were not at their best and often found themselves on the back foot against lowly opponents. Wednesday’s clash at Anfield is also a chance for Liverpool to get their European campaign back on track after a late 1-0 defeat by Napoli in their previous Group C encounter. Despite Red Star not having won yet on their return to the group stage of Europe’s elite competition, Van Dijk was not underestimating the Serbian club. “They are in the Champions League — the best competition in Europe apart from the Premier League — and it will be a hard game,” the Dutchman told the Liverpool website . “We will need to be 100% and I think we will be. “Against Huddersfield, we should have done even better. Obviously we kept a clean sheet...
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