Virgil van Dijk admitted Liverpool tried their luck in Saturday’s Merseyside derby with some of the referees. Virgil van Dijk admitted Liverpool tried their luck in Saturday’s Merseyside derby – and even said he believes Ibrahim Konate was not sent off against Everton.
The Reds dominated their 243rd derby with the Blues on Saturday afternoon as Mohamed Salah doubled their 10-man lead at Anfield.Ashley Young was sent off for fouling Luis Diaz twice in the first half and Salah sealed the game with a free-kick and a strike in the 97th minute. Everton were left frustrated in the second half as referee Craig Pawson decided not to show Konate a second yellow card for a tackle on Beto, who had been cautioned for a similar offence.Van Dijk was lucky not to be reduced to 10 men, Liverpool’s fifth red card of the season. “Luck? Of course.” Van Dyke said. ‘What can I say? He tried to give it to her, but she wouldn’t. We were a little lucky.
So what can I say? There is nothing else. Did I deserve this happiness? That’s what others can say. I do not know “I think things like fights are refereed. Especially in the second game, when the decision was made, I wanted to avoid the referee and make sure I got a yellow card. I realized I had to shout or say” that’s yellow.” “It’s us,” Van Dijk said. It was a long-awaited match. The red card changed things a bit, but we had a game plan and we had to be very patient and make sure our defensive organization was right because of possession and high balls.
Here’s what they want: Win and watch.“We should have known about it. There are also players who will fight for it. We did well, very well. It is clear that we have won. It’s hard. In this game, when they go down 1-0, the whole dynamic of the game changes. If Trent had hit that ball in front of everyone in the first inning, I think it would have been a completely different game if he had hit that ball before the end of the first inning. If your goal is just to score, it’s a different game. But we didn’t do that. Sometimes you just have to move on.
“Obviously it’s still early in the season but the signs are very good. I’m very happy that we kept a clean sheet and won very comfortably and didn’t miss too many chances. Set pieces that could be dangerous, loose – places that would they could be dangerous but I took them. I knew. I think we did pretty well.
