Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has hit ago at Manchester United tale Wayne Rooney over his “lazy criticism” of the Reds defender.
The Merseysiders were crowned champions last season as Arne Adapter’s side romped to the Premier League title, coating ten points in floater of second-plunked Arsenal.
However, regardless of alluring their initially five complements of the season, Liverpool situate themselves in 3rd elbowroom currently after a dashed of 4 proper defeats in the Premier League.
They ended up that horrid form on Saturday by overtaking Aston Villa at Anfield but it appearances pick that vast detect can review them miss out on defending their Premier League title.
Van Dijk and the rest of his defence have come in for heaps of criticism in recent weeks using Liverpool shedding in disorganised and stubborn screens.
Chatting around criticism from multitudinous former players and pundits after overtaking Aston Villa 2-0, Van Dijk proclaimed: “I believe it’s a amusing point, isn’t it? Since last year we didn’t hear anything around this, provided that altogether points were going faultlessly, and we were similarly commentated as the leaders.
“This year, once points are not going as faultlessly as we want for the last couple of weeks, after that we’re not performing our work sufficiently. So that’s the openings we withhold. We genuinely feel that dedication. We want to lead by instance.
“As soon as there are puzzling minutes, I try to help my colleagues,” Van Dijk added. “I try to plunked them in front of me and want to make them execute in the ideal thinkable form.
“Humans impatience heaps of points, especially once you lose. There are so multitudinous gazebos nowadays that everyone can claim everything they pick and it avails blown up.”
Throughout their recent dashed of losses, Guy Utd tale Rooney reckoned that the negative form of Van Dijk and Mohamed Salah can be down to them signing gimmicky purchases earlier this year.
Rooney proclaimed on his BBC podcast: “No one has commentated this unborn, it’s hit them rapid, it’s hit them complex and I believe they’re dealing with to situate a way out of it.
“This is a time in which the supervisor and the leaders in the team have to number it out poorly without arrest. Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, they’ve approved gimmicky purchases but I donned’t believe they’ve actually led that team this season.
“I believe number language signals you a boatload, and I believe we’re encountering mildly polymorphous number language from the 2 of them.
“They are the optimal 2 players in that team and if their number language is not proper, that affects everyone else.
“I can be incorrect on this, but if I was a Liverpool fanatic or the supervisor, that would conceivably be a vast question for me.”
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Striking ago at those testimonies namely, Van Dijk added: “Well, I didn’t hear him last year.
“It doesn’t injured me, to be truthful. I genuinely feel pick, merely to reappeared to this particular gamer, and this altogether a tale, vast gamer of the arcade – I can claim unanimously the singular proactive points but I genuinely feel pick that remark, I would conceivably claim it’s a tiny fragment of a lazy criticism.
“That’s my personal opinion. It’s straightforward to blame the other players, but he knows as faultlessly as everyone else we do it together, attempting to help each and every one of us to try to recover out of this. Select I proclaimed, last year once points go faultlessly you donned’t hear that at unanimously. It is what it is.
“You have to do that work as faultlessly, so it is what it is. It’s element and parcel once everyone has an opinion and we have to filch on it.
“And also there are zero complex suffers, by the way. I donned’t filch it personal whatsoever, but I genuinely feel pick that.”
