After leading Atalanta 3-0 at home, the Reds were unable to pull off a 1-0 win in Italy.
Speaking to TNT Sports afterwards, Van Dijk said: First of all, thanks to Atalanta.
The damage was done last week (when) we were very deficient and they played the best game. They deserve to go through. We made it too complicated with last week’s result.
Today was an intelligent game, a wonderful fight. We have clearly won, but it doesn’t seem so. It’s an obvious improvement, but the truth is that we’re out and we want to change things temporarily, recover and get to London on Saturday.
“We want everyone for this last push and that is the feeling I have now. “