After a 50 game streak in the Premier League, Liverpool’s big defensive man has been successfully dribbled past.
Who else but Arsenal’s new lightning signing Nicolas Pepe, he’s the first person to dribble past VVD since Mikel Merino in March of 2018.
It's happened!
Virgil van Dijk has been dribbled past in the Premier League for the first time in 50 games.
Nicolas Pepe 👏
Live text 👉 https://t.co/JATDB1rzsc #LIVARS pic.twitter.com/mUjuxouLX3
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) August 24, 2019
Will he dribble past him more than once today is the next question, what does Pepe have that the rest of the Premier League doesn’t that he broke this record so early?
See it here:
50 – Nicolas Pepe has become the first player to successfully dribble past Virgil van Dijk in the Dutch defender's last 50 appearances in the Premier League, since Mikel Merino in March 2018 for Newcastle. Beaten. pic.twitter.com/B1oRZMciOB
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) August 24, 2019