Football Fans React to Virgil Van Dijk and Nemanja Vidic's Comparison

The debate of who is the best defender in the history of the English Premier League has placed football fans around the world at loggerheads in the past few seasons.

Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Nemanja Vidic, and Virgil Van Dijk have been the top four players in this conversation. The debate raised its head again when former Liverpool player, Jamie Carragher posted on his official Twitter account that Van Dijk is better than Vidic.

VVD is far better than Vidic, who was a top CB, but have you forgot his performances against Torres? Rio & JT had poor seasons in their career like all players, VVD is having one now. No CB in the PL era has ever had VVD's impact on a team.

Vidic won 5 Premier League titles, 1 UEFA Champions League, 3 League Cups, and 1 Club World Cup. However, Van Dijk has won f the following trophies, the Premier League title, UEFA Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, and Club World Cup.

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Torres played against Vidic 15 times and scored 3 goals.

In that period Vidic won PL's Player of the Season twice, and was in the team of the year, 3 times. Torres didn't cause half the problem you thought he did.

And to top it off, Vidic won 3 PL's and a UCL in that period https://t.co/PSTolYvgdf

— 𝗇𝗂𝖺𝗆𝗁 (@niamhutd) April 10, 2023

He had one dreadful game against Torres. United still won the league that season and Vidic was their player of the year. Without Vidic, United wouldn't have won the Champions League and Ferdinand wouldn't have become a great centre-back. So impact with Van Dijk comparable.

— Samuel Luckhurst (@samuelluckhurst) April 10, 2023

Anthony Martial has as many goals vs Van Dijk as Torres did vs Vidic by the way. https://t.co/H4Dwl3ANTQ

— Tùká (@TukaLetura) April 10, 2023

Your claim was VVD impact Liverpool more than Vidic did Man United, but Vidic's impact lead to more trophies thus much bigger.

And that at the end of the day is how football is judged = trophies. https://t.co/Ho5oJYbzFE

— Terry Flewers (@terryflewers) April 10, 2023

VVD is clear of both Vidic and Kompany.

He transformed Liverpool into one of the greatest teams seen in English football. Enough said. pic.twitter.com/0dXf59wfGL

— ⁴ (@TheVVDRole) April 10, 2023

Torres scored 3 goals in 15 games against Vidic.

Recency bias is so real, real ones don't forget how good Vidic was https://t.co/kN2rhFvKIn

— UtdPlug (@UtdPlug) April 10, 2023

Liverpool fans should apologise for comparing this guy to Terry, Ferdinand, Vidic and Ramos. pic.twitter.com/T2OwG2kGpd

— FootballFunnys (@FootballFunnnys) April 9, 2023

van dijk's biggest career achievement is that his one wonder season had him in conversations with rio vidic pic.twitter.com/lvhBGX7vS0

— (@UTDCJ_) April 9, 2023

Terry was consistent for 10+ yrs at the top for Chelsea

Man Utd hadn't won the league in 3yrs prior. Vidic arrived in 2006 & Utd won the EPL back to back, 5 EPL's, 1 UCL, 3 League cups & a Club World Cup, that's a bigger impact!

Van Dijk only had 2 consistent years at the top https://t.co/ZKz1mBqGKl

— Zoba (@Czooba) April 10, 2023

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