Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk admits he regrets his post-match message after the Carabao Cup closing.
The Dutchman, 32, lifted his first trophy as captain of the Merseyside membership after defeating Chelsea on penalties within the cup closing final month as he additionally picked up the person of the match award because of his stellar efficiency and successful aim.
Following the triumph, cameras adopted into the Liverpool dressing room as Van Dijk had a particular message for his unrelenting critics.
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Looking down the digital camera with a slight smirk on his face, the 32-year-old mentioned: “They thought I was finished!” The Netherlands captain was clearly properly in tune with the criticism he confronted final yr in what was his worst season at Liverpool.
Some wrote off the centre again given the ACL damage he endured in 2020, not many footballers of their thirties can reclaim world class standing after such a devastating damage.
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Despite the justification in Van Dijk’s riposte, the Reds skipper admitted remorse over the message, as he mentioned the feelings coursing via his physique took maintain of him. He defined the reasoning behind it in an interview following Liverpool’s mammoth 6-1 win over Sparta Prague within the Europa League on Thursday (March 14).
“I shouldn’t have said that. Because I don’t want to have the wrong intentions,” he mentioned. “That was a part of the emotion popping out of me as a result of there have been so many feelings going via my entire physique that day.
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“Last season was disappointing. Not disappointing in a way that I was bad, I didn’t feel like that at all, I was just below my standards and the consistency wasn’t there that I have had and set for myself in each and every game. I fully understand the noise that came with it but I am a human being and not immune to any of that, so there was a bit of emotion that day but I shouldn’t have said that [to the camera].”
Van Dijk has been on prime kind this season as he is one of many foremost candidates to say the PFA Player of the Year award and will he win it, he’ll grow to be the one defender in English top-flight historical past to win it twice, having received it in 2019.