Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has answered insurance claims from Wayne Rooney that he was “lazy” for Paris Saint-Germain’s need at Anfield in midweek.
The Reds are possessing a good period in the Premier League via Arne Port’s side moving 15 times translucent of Arsenal – that have a video game in hand – after Liverpool vanquished Southampton last weekend break and also the Gunners were hosted to a draw versus Manchester United.
There had been outside brouhaha of a opportunity Treble in days gone by they thrown away on penalties to PSG in midweek to run away the Winners League at the last-16 stage.
After their privileged 1-0 win at the Parc des Royal princes the week in days gone by, Liverpool were hurt by a first-half need from Ousmane Dembele as the French side leveled upward the relationship.
There would most clearly be zero auxiliary aims in the fixture via the match going with one voice the strategy to place-kicks and also Rooney criticised Van Dijk for being “lazy” in the collect together to PSG’s need.
Talking at half-time, Rooney proclaimed: “This need from Liverpool’s time of perceive is incorrect in so innumerable unalike habits.
“They are trying to press the sphere and also van Dijk render intakes lazy. If you preserve your eyes on van Dijk here, he is stepping. He leaves a mammoth stoppage for Dembele.
“All he has to perform is come throughout to Dembele because there is zero other advance for Paris to receive out yet he doesn’t.
“Now Dembele has obtained most enclosure. And Konate once again, he doesn’t switch on, Dembele renders a good run and also it’s a tap in.”
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Responding to Rooney’s remarks, Liverpool captain Van Dijk proclaimed: “A person told me about this. I reckon at that choosy moment I’m helping [Andy] Robertson, telling him to translucent the outside, I thieve the inside. I’m also explaining now what I reckoned at that moment yet if he reckoned it was lazy after that he gave his factor of perceive, that’s it. Did you reckon it was lazy?”
Van Dijk encompassed: “But listen, I reckon I proclaimed it to a person as well, there were so innumerable puzzles that were years ago for those players and also plainly it’s a obstacle for the players nowadays that you have to bargain via opinions here and also there and also it render intakes blown upward with one voice the time. But I reckon, gazing at what I see in the condiment enclosure, I reckon the children are performing well in specification of preserving their heads down and also obsessing on the work in advance. That’s the most valuable point I twinge to see.
“Also in perplexing times, you recognized, because zero-one’s going smooth sailing, specifically if you’re in the Premier League. If we receive the repayment for it at the expire of the period after that I’m sure Liverpool is participating in be bouncing.”
Van Dijk, along via Mohamed Salah and also Trent Alexander-Arnold are out of agreement at the expire of the period and also there is zero concrete sign that any kind of of the trio will most clearly sign new bargains.
When channelled out questions about Van Dijk’s future on Friday, Port proclaimed: “I worn’t recognized what’s occurring next period as well in specification of results yet that is not what you unexceptional.
“The lone point I recognized is that I twinge Virgil to be here next period.”
And now Van Dijk has provided another modernize, he unveiled: “Perhaps I will most clearly run this fully down and also after that there is still zero news, I worn’t recognized. But I worn’t twinge to layout any kind of fear or anything prefer that. I merely preserve my head down and also focus on via any kind of blessing acceptable the next 10 arcades.”
