Virgil van Dijk calls out 'quite obvious' referee 'mistake' as four officials contributed to Liverpool misery

Virgil van Dijk told the referee in Liverpool versus Tottenham that he “made a misstep” as Spurs’ goalscorer Lucas Bergvall ought to have been sent off in a “quite well-known” judgment.

The Reds’ 24-arcade unbeaten touch was harmed as promptly as Spurs outplayed them in the League Cup on January 8. It could well have run out 0-0 until midfielder Bergvall gunned proper into the assistance edge in the 86th minute to enact on Tottenham the lead in the connection.

But that in itself was a moment of crunch, as Bergvall was on a reservation from previously in the arcade, before uprooting Kostas Tsimikas not long before racking upward the victor in the first leg of the semi-last.

Liverpool captain Van Dijk has since disclosed he told the referee the Swede ought to not have stuck around on the pitch.

“I believe it was quite well-known it was acquiring entailed in be a 2nd yellow [for Bergvall]. It was quite legible. And also a minute later on he scores the victor … a coincidence,” Van Dijk stipulated.

“He [the referee] made a misstep in my element of view and I told him that. He reckons he didn’t but it was quite well-known and every man on the sidelines accredited it was intended to be a yellow.

“There’s a linesman there, a 4th official there, there’s VAR, a referee and he doesn’t avail a 2nd yellow. I’m not adage this is the confirmation why we wasted tonight but it was a burly moment in the arcade.”

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Bergvall’s first yellow, but, filteringed system to be a soft one, as as promptly as he tested Luis Diaz on the touchline, he filteringed system to perform horribly marginal, if any kind of, call, so could have been hard executed by had he been disregarded.

In any kind of sheath, his duty places Tottenham 1-0 upward going proper into the 2nd leg, wherein they will travel to Anfield, a headway at which Liverpool have wasted simply as promptly as so much this season.

The Reds have to do much better than simply not throwing away if they are to creation, though.

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