Virgil Van Dijk’s Red Card Was Soft – Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has come out to compare the club’s win against Newcastle to their famous comeback against Barcelona. He recently revealed that Virgil van Dijk was shown a soft red card, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the win was definitely one of his best victories as a coach, and it was actually more difficult to pull off than the Barcelona game.

Klopp added that there was no active contact from Van Dijk on the Newcastle player, so the red card was definitely soft.

His words, “If it was one of my best victories as a coach? Certainly! It was more difficult than the Barcelona game because we were not at Anfield.”

“Oh my god – how much I enjoyed that. At half-time I said if we can turn this it is something we can tell our grandkids. I see mine in 10 days so I can tell them.”

“With 10 men, in my history with over 1000 [matches] I never had something like that in that way. Against a team like Newcastle. In an atmosphere like that.”

On the red card, “The red card. We need to have another look. There is no active contact from Virg. There is contact but on the way to the ball there is a soft touch. For this contact, getting three days [suspended)], oh my god.”