Van Dijk: The referee made this mistake, and I look forward to the return match

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk appeared in press statements after losing 1-0 against Tottenham, in the first leg of the English League Cup semi-final.

Van Dijk said about Bergvall was not given a second yellow card for his challenge on the Liverpool player: “I think it was quite clear that there would be a second yellow card, I think it was very clear. It was a coincidence and after one minute he scored the winning goal.” ".

He added: "This is the thing. In my opinion, I told him that he thought he did not make a mistake, but it was very clear and I think everyone on both sides of the field knew that It was supposed to be a second yellow card for Bergvall.”

He added: “There is an assistant referee, a fourth referee, there is a video assistant referee, and a referee who did not receive a yellow card.” Again, I'm not saying this is the reason we lost tonight, but it was a big moment in the match ".

He stressed: "We played against a strong team that includes good attacking players, who can make things difficult, and keep running. We created good moments and good chances at times." They were not really clear chances in my opinion, but they were enough to score goals, but unfortunately we did not do that.”

He noted: “It is time for the break now and I am looking forward to The second leg at Anfield, we move on, we take it, it's time At the break, we have more than 90 more minutes and I am really looking forward to facing them in the second leg.”

He concluded: “Sometimes I think we could have done better, and that is Part of football too. We try to play our best, all of us, and at times we played well and created some individual confrontations and some dangerous moments. They were able to defend better than they did when we played here two weeks ago.”