William Gallas names team with best defence this season

Liverpool boasts the best defensive lineup in the English top-flight league, largely due to captain Virgil van Dijk’s mentorship of Ibrahima Konate.

The Frenchman highlighted the impressive partnership between van Dijk and Konate, noting their solid defensive collaboration.

The 2024/25 Premier League season has now entered the second half of the campaign, with 21 games played so far.

“If you look at Liverpool, they have the best defence in the Premier League this season,” Gallas told Prime Casino.

“Van Dijk has nurtured Konate. He has given Konate the opportunity to go to another level and Liverpool have been rewarded with a monster.

“That partnership, they are very strong, because van Dijk, even if he’s a captain, he is still the boss of the defence line.

“Konaté, when you look, he doesn’t speak really to the defence. He just follows what van Dijk is doing.

“That is how Konaté has gone to another level and, when van Dijk leaves the club, it will be the turn of Konaté to be the boss of the defence and to next to teach the next player that comes along.”