‘Kind of pettiness I can relate to’ – Fans spot Van Dijk’s brutal gesture towards Richalison as Liverpool hammer Spurs

LIVERPOOL defender Virgil van Dijk near fans successful stitches aft tricking Tottenham guardant Richarlison during Thursday's Carabao Cup semi-final.

With Spurs 1-0 up connected aggregate going into the Anfield clash, tensions ran precocious from the off.

Just 3 minutes into the match, Van Dijk was fortunate to debar a punishment aft elbowing Richarlison.

Following a check, VAR adjudged determination was nary convulsive conduct.

The defender past got the amended of his hostile disconnected the shot conscionable a fewer minutes later.

After fouling Richarlison conscionable extracurricular of Tottenham's punishment area, Van Dijk held his manus retired to assistance the Brazilian up disconnected the floor.

However, conscionable arsenic the Spurs antheral was astir to instrumentality it, helium pulled his limb distant earlier moving backmost into his ain half.

Fans were speedy to react, with 1 idiosyncratic taking to X to write: "Van Dijk’s perfectly done Richarlison 😭."

Another commented: "This is the benignant of pettiness I tin subordinate to 😂."

A 3rd said: "Just erstwhile I thought it wasn’t humanly imaginable to emotion the antheral more, helium pulls this off. Incredible."

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While a 4th wrote: "The classics are inactive the best!"

Liverpool went connected to triumph the lucifer 4-0 acknowledgment to goals from Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai and Van Dijk.

They subsequently progressed to the Carabao Cup last with a 4-1 triumph connected aggregate.

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