Interview: The Reds’ captain, whose Anfield future is unclear, opens up ahead of Sunday’s Carabao Cup final with Newcastle

Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk has said winning a second Carabao Cup against Newcastle would give him a place among the captains who had achieved great things at the club.

When they walk out at Wembley it will be exactly a year and a day since it all started to go wrong in Jurgen Klopp’s final season, with defeat in the FA Cup quarter-finals followed by exits from Europa League and the title race within in the space of a month.