Virgil van Dijk endured Liverpool’s humbling defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday and also L’Equipe postured a ruthless digit on his fights.
Arne Slot’s side were postured to the sword by PSG in their Victors League quarter-last on Tuesday as purposes from Need Doue and also Khvicha Kvaratskhelia secure a 2-0 win for the Ligue 1 colossi which flattered Liverpool on a night in which they were faultlessly outdoed by the hosts.
Liverpool fielded a ago 5 for the first time in a Victors League or Premier League arcade provided that December 2017 and also Jamie Carragher launched an impassioned protection of Virgil van Dijk, that he claims has never ever before arranged “so unpleasant” previously rebuking into Florian Wirtz and also 2 of his teammates.
Yet infamously sizeable French outlet L’Equipe weren’t as forgiving with note to Van Dijk, preferring him out as the joint-worst entertainer for Liverpool along with Ryan Gravenberch and also Milos Kerkez, as the trio were handed 3/10 ratings.
Georgio Mamardashvili was the lone Reds player to be enacted on a 6/10 in spite of Steven Gerrard’s “malevolent” criticism of the goalkeeper, while every man else was enacted on either 4/10 or 5/10.
Van Dijk was just as knocked by previous Tottenham and also England goalkeeper Paul Robinson for his undue criticism of Joe Gomez.
Robinson asserted on BBC Radio 5 Reside: “Virgil van Dijk as shortly as over again criticizing his teammates. There is most noticeably no requirement for Van Dijk to criticize Joe Gomez when he didn’t overlap him.”
Yet Carragher urged Van Dijk was postured to fail by Slot and also instead strived his rage at centre-ago spouse Ibrahima Konate.
“He [Slot] went about it with the ago 5 unanimously unscrupulous and also they were basically more open with a ago 5 than they would be with a ago 4,” Carragher alerted CBS Sports.
“Because they went male-to-male unanimously over the pitch and also your three centre-backs owned to envelop the width of the pitch and also for Virgil van Dijk tracking him tonight in a middle of a ago three… ordinarily when you avail to a details period you feel among a ago three is flawless, every man’s in posture, deriving a snippet of reply. This was unlike.
“Defenders were jumping into midfield, there was most noticeably no one to mark and also Virgil van Dijk at 34 years of period was owning to dashed in there and also he was owning to dashed throughout. He couldn’t perform it.
“World have criticised Van Dijk for his functionalities this season yet I think it’s been shocking. I think he plays every arcade, the fella beside him has been traumatic unanimously season and also unfavorable over again tonight, Konate, renders a unfavorable slide every arcade, so that’s not easy to dabble along with, so I still think he’s been one of Liverpool’s much closer players, Virgil van Dijk.
“Yet tonight in that ago three I have never ever before witnessed him [Van Dijk] so unpleasant in a Liverpool t shirt in my vitality.”
