Ibrahima Konate is taking all the advice he can from Liverpool teammate Virgil van Dijk.

The Frenchman, signed from RB Leipzig last summer, has been restricted to just four appearances this season.

But Konate is learning from van Dijk and hopes one day he can reach the same level as the Netherlands star.

He told the club's matchday programme: "Both in training and in games at the beginning it was pretty cool to be able to say that you were playing alongside one of, or the best defender in the world!

"You can't help but learn from him. You say to yourself: 'OK, if he has got to this level, then when can't I, playing alongside him right now, aspire to a similar level?'

"Or why not go even better in the years to come?

"I know that I am giving myself a massive target there, but that is the only way to out-perform yourself.

"He certainly does give me plenty of advice in training when I'm alongside him and even in a game, he gives me advice on all these kinds of things that I might not have seen in the same way in the past."