Liverpool captain, Virgil van Dijk has come out to admit that Ibrahima Konate was fortunate not to get sent off in the Merseyside derby against Everton. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the referee could have easily sent Konate off for the tackle, but he felt relief when he decided to leave him on the pitch before the substitution.
Van Dijk added that people should move on from the decision because Liverpool has been quite unlucky with some refs in the past.
His words, “A bit of luck? Definitely. What can I say? He could have given it, he didn’t give it. A bit of luck for us. So what can I say? Nothing else. I think with tackles and stuff, that’s for the referees to judge.”
“Especially the second I noticed that when there is a decision, we wanted to stay away from the referee and to make sure we don’t get yellow cards for shouting or saying ‘ref yellow for this’. That’s something we have influence on and that’s a bit like something we should stay away from. We did that very well, especially with the circumstances. Like I spoke about before, we were lucky not to concede a second yellow with Ibou, he knows it but we move on.”
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