{"id":512601,"date":"2025-10-19T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:29:10","slug":"virgil-van-dijks-assessment-of-liverpools-defeat-by-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512601\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk&#8217;s assessment of Liverpool&#8217;s defeat by Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On why Liverpool lost the game&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because we conceded a very sloppy second goal. We worked so hard to get back into the game, we created opportunities to score the winner, but if you concede a second goal like that, obviously that&#8217;s the disappointing part. I think overall if you look at the game, we were far too rushed, I think we were making wrong decisions and they were also the moments where we were open if we lost the ball. Yeah, a disappointing day.<\/p>\n<p>I think United was obviously very patient. They didn&#8217;t press us that high and they let us have the ball. I think we made rash decisions at times where we had to stay maybe a little bit calm. We still created many opportunities to score and win the game. But the reality is that we lost. It&#8217;s an interesting time now and we have to stick together \u2013 not only us as players but together with our fans and everyone who wants us to win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the opening goal&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the ball goes long, the first header gets won by a United player, the second header won by me, in that moment obviously I hit Macca [Alexis Mac Allister], he goes down, I go down and that creates the space on my position in behind. I thought from the angle that it was pretty difficult to score but he managed to score. It&#8217;s still early on in the game, so there&#8217;s still plenty of football to be played. It was good for us to just stay calm but I think we didn&#8217;t manage that in the best way and that&#8217;s obviously disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On why Liverpool lost the game&#8230; Because we conceded a very sloppy second goal. We worked so hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1050,1051,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-512601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-reds","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115402490808677496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}