Virgil van Dijk receives apology after he reacts to to Liverpool quadruple question

Virgil van Dijk scoffed astatine Troy Deeney’s proposition that Liverpool are connected people for an unprecedented quadruple pursuing past night’s 4-0 demolition of Tottenham.

Arne Slot’s relentless winning instrumentality comfortably overturned a one-goal shortage astatine Anfield past nighttime arsenic Spurs were enactment to the sword successful ruthless fashion.

The Reds volition present look Newcastle astatine Wembley next period successful a crippled that volition connection Jurgen Klopp’s successor a accidental to assertion his archetypal portion of silverware.

More trophies could perchance pursuing with Liverpool inactive progressive successful the FA Cup, done to the past 16 of the Champions League without the request for play-off and holding a commanding pb successful the contention for the Premier League title.

With a formidable squad boasting a cleanable measure of wellness and Mohamed Salah enjoying arguably his champion ever season, Liverpool could beryllium forgiven for feeling assured of a cleanable sweep.

Not that Van Dijk was having immoderate of it past nighttime aft helium played a cardinal relation ina triumph implicit Spurs that lone served to underline that spread that presently exists betwixt his squad and the chasing pack.

Asked astir Liverpool’s chances of cleanable sweep, Van Dijk instantly dismissed erstwhile Watford striker Deeney’s question which prompted the CBS pundit to apologise.

‘I’m atrocious I person been forced to inquire the questions,’ Deeney said.

He past asked: ‘With the quadruple connected the skyline however bash you negociate everyone being level each azygous day?’

Van Dijk past paused earlier offering a much measured effect to his archetypal ‘ah travel on’.

He said: ‘The anticipation that we person is to effort and triumph each crippled and not quadruple oregon reasoning astir what could beryllium determination successful May time.

‘Every crippled that we play from present connected is going to beryllium hard up until the extremity of the season.

‘Hopefully we’re going to beryllium successful each contention and that’ll beryllium fantastic that’s what we enactment for. We conscionable person to bask the full thrust altogether.

‘Not lone america arsenic a radical of players arsenic a radical with the defence arsenic well, look astatine america ourselves, don’t look astatine others, conscionable interest astir ourselves and look that’s the lone happening we look at. I accidental that to the squad and to the boys arsenic well.’

Slot, meanwhile, hailed a peculiar infinitesimal aft guiding Liverpool to Wembley but echoed Van Dijk’s sentiments by insisting his thoughts were already connected the adjacent game.

Rather than basking successful his latest success, the Dutchman is already reasoning astir different contention up of this weekend’s FA Cup travel to Sky Bet Championship broadside Plymouth.

The Liverpool manager said: ‘It’s pleasant, though if you cognize maine a small bit, my thoughts are much connected Sunday already than reasoning astir the last successful the month.

‘Our show was thing that pleased me. Reaching a last should ever beryllium special, adjacent for this club, due to the fact that this nine is utilized to playing finals, but inactive we are moving precise hard each azygous time to effort to amended players and the players privation to amended themselves each azygous day.

‘But we’re besides successful this concern to play finals, though we cognize however hard the last is going to beryllium due to the fact that we faced Newcastle already and they were precise awesome yesterday arsenic well.

‘But determination are galore games to beryllium played earlier that last and this is wherever our absorption should beryllium at.’

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