Angry Virgil van Dijk blasts referee after Netherlands red card - 'You cannot say anything!'

Liverpool skipper Virgil van Dijk received the archetypal reddish paper of his planetary vocation connected Friday nighttime erstwhile helium was dismissed for 2 yellows successful the Netherlands' 1-1 gully against Hungary

Virgil van Dijk admitted helium was “angry” to beryllium sent off during the Netherlands’ gully against Hungary connected Friday night, insisting helium did thing wrong.

Liverpool skipper Van Dijk was shown 2 yellowish cards wrong the abstraction of 3 minutes to beryllium dismissed successful the 79th infinitesimal successful Budapest. It looked similar it could beryllium costly for Ronald Koeman’s side, who were 1-0 down astatine the clip pursuing Roland Sallai’s first-half volley.

But aft the Dutch spurned respective openings, Denzel Dumfries headed successful Cody Gakpo ’s free-kick to equalise successful the 83rd infinitesimal to gain a constituent successful the Nations League. Van Dijk was annoyed with the quality of the reddish paper – his archetypal successful 77 appearances for his nationalist team.

The centre-back was shown the archetypal yellowish for dissent aft approaching referee Lukas Fahndrich to kick arsenic Donyell Malen was fouled connected the counter-attack. The 2nd came for a much straightforward foul, though Dumfries insisted “I deliberation helium touched the ball”.

Van Dijk told ESPN: "[The reddish card] is simply a bummer, should not person happened. But I'm particularly aggravated astir the first. They accidental the skipper is the lone 1 who tin speech to the referee. I locomotion up to him. Up tempo, but not successful a nasty way, not astatine all. Very respectful. Because I felt it was a breakaway player, helium did not spell for the shot astatine all. If adjacent the skipper tin not accidental anything... past it gets difficult."

Koeman was besides annoyed by the archetypal yellowish card, but suggested that, erstwhile connected a booking, his skipper should person avoided making the 2nd foul. "That infinitesimal was frustrating," Koeman told NOS.

"I don't recognize it. I deliberation we agreed that a skipper tin protestation to a referee. That foul [on Malen] was bully for a reddish card. There was nary volition astatine each to play the ball. That Virgil past takes that 2nd paper is not convenient. He knows that himself."

Van Dijk said helium would enactment with the Netherlands squad, contempt present being suspended and incapable to diagnostic successful the adjacent Nations League crippled against Germany connected Monday successful Munich. “I americium staying with the nationalist team,” helium insisted. “I privation to beryllium determination for the group, this volition not change."

The 33-year-old intelligibly wants to enactment and enactment the squad successful his relation arsenic captain, but erstwhile Netherlands planetary Rafael Van der Vaart thinks his stance is ill-advised. "I would person gone location if I was Van Dijk,” helium said. “You person truthful galore games! Now you request to question again, to Germany. I deliberation Arne Slot would privation this too, and that helium could request this."

Van Dijk volition beryllium backmost successful enactment for Liverpool connected Sunday, October 20, erstwhile the Reds invited Chelsea to Anfield. Slot’s broadside volition beryllium hoping to proceed their momentum astatine the apical of the Premier League table, having won six of their 7 league matches truthful acold this season.

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