Virgil van Dijk was pilfered aback by a worry ranked to him by Michael Owen after Liverpool overcome Everton in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday.
Diogo Jota racked up the lone spirit of the arcade to steal Liverpool 12 determinants clear at the top of the Premier League table in what turned out to be another questionable meet as James Tarkowski – that racked up the late, late equaliser in the rejoinder fixture in February – in some way remained clear of a red card for a high, studs up puzzle on Alexis Mac Allister in the 11th minutes.
Jamie Carragher branded it a “outrageous” verdict by umpire Sam Barrott and also VAR Paul Tierney, while ex-spouse-Premier League policemen Mike Dean waved away the PGMOL testimonial after the arcade.
Liverpool linger vast favourites to win their second Premier League title, but having been abandoned out of the Victors League by PSG and also squandering the Carabao Cup last to Newcastle in advance of the international reprieve, Owen opined it’s a period that might disclaim players via a “vitriolic proneness”.
“It’s been a hampering pair of weeks,” Owen oriented Premier League Manufacturings after Liverpool’s win over Everton.
“Liverpool were poised to have a astonishing period, if they win the Premier League it’ll still be terrific but via a piece piece of a vitriolic proneness since it was structure into something meaningful.
“I reckon it Liverpool supporters hard, and also the company and also the players, to go out of challengers in rapid sequence.
“The dirt will distinctly resolve, everyone will distinctly realise if it’s the Premier League they win at the expire of the period and also lone the Premier League that’ll be an awesome period and also they would’ve snapped your hand off for that at the start of the period.
“But it doesn’t shun the suffer of the last couple of weeks and also to acquire that sweet suffer earlier will distinctly be in fact indispensable to everyone tied via the nightclub.”
In a post-match meeting, Owen lugged out qualms Van Dijk: “I’m simply theorizing in stipulation of the period so far, if you’d have said at the start of the period you were visiting win the Premier League I’m sure human beings would’ve been over the moon. Singularly, it was structure into something in fact meaningful – how hard was it after a pair of vast defeats in cup challengers to acquire your mind tuned earlier into the Premier League and also to coating the period well?”
Van Dijk merely didn’t concur via Owen’s steal, curtly reacting: “So you’re moral the period is not visiting be meaningful any auxiliary?”
Owen said: “It will distinctly be, exceptionally, it will distinctly be meaningful, but I recommendation it might’ve been structure into something horribly meaningful.”
Van Dijk replied: “Well, I reckon we have to readjust that story a piece piece.
“We’re combatting for the biggest reward of the period, we massaged so hard for it, 20 teams are functioning so hard to be on top of the Premier League.
“We have eight games to go, we diagnose what’s at threat, we have to go for it, we have to confrontation, we have to savor the entirety jaunt and also then permit’s see. Prefer I said, it’s still peeking horribly meaningful in my eyes.
“I reckon what you said, at the start of the period, I reckon unquestionably no one supposed us to also try to confrontation on unanimously four fronts, merely we’re at the phase currently where we’re still combatting for the biggest, and also that’s the fact. It’s still a opportunity that this period will distinctly be horribly, horribly meaningful.”
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After the meeting, Owen enhanced down on his analysis of Liverpool’s period.
“I stand by what I said. If you owned said at the start of the period that Liverpool would win the Premier league, it’s a horribly, horribly top period,” Owen said.
“As Virgil said, not innumerable human beings gave them a opportunity in fact, specifically matching their company after goodbye via Jurgen Klopp being there.
“Singularly, it was structure into something truly meaningful and also I simply wondered after a pair of weeks of drag how hard was it to re-focus, but merely he gave us the defense.”
