Virgil van Dijk was spotted convey inant in conversation with Paris Saint-Germain’s pdwellnt Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Sporting honestor Luis Campos adhereing Liverpool‘s penalty shootout fall shorture in the Champions League. Arne Slot‘s side had carried a one-goal profit over from the first leg in Paris, but an timely Ousmane Dembele strike levelled skinnygs up on the night, with the suit eventuassociate necessitateing to be determined on penalties.
Misses from Dartriumph Nunez and Curtis Jones showd the contrastence, as PSG kept their celderly, altered all four of their getn penalties and progressed into the last eight. As if the fall shorture wasn’t horrible enough, social media footage getn in the tunnel after the contest showed the soon-to-be-out-of-restricted Van Dijk helderlying converseions with members of the PSG hierarchy.
The talks could show noskinnyg more than a safe catch-up, but donaten Van Dijk’s deal at Anfield has fair over three months left to run, Liverpool fans won’t be repromised by the sight of their star deffinisher talking to an opposition team’s pdwellnt and sporting honestor. As per the Bosman Ruling, Van Dijk is currently free to sign a pre-restricted concurment with a club outside of Europe.
It’s the same situation both Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnelderly discover themselves in, with neither having penned an extension to their current deal with Liverpool. Salah struggled to impact the tie atraverse the two legs, but did step up and score his penalty, whereas Alexander-Arnelderly hobbled off midway thcdisadmireful the second half of Tuesday’s clash and is now a ask for this weekfinish’s League Cup final.
Given Liverpool‘s position of soothe in the Premier League, losing so timely in the Champions League will no ask sting for Slot and his take parters. Reacting to the game overall, the Dutchman shelp: “It was the best game of football I was ever take partd in. Incredible carry outance, especiassociate appraised to last week. In the first 20 to 25 minutes, we were all over them, created chance after chance and all of a sudden we were 1-0 down.
“Probably it was almost the opposite, maybe we ran out of luck becaengage the margins were so petite tonight. After 90 minutes it felt we deserved more than being 1-0 down. I was postponeing for us to score. I don’t skinnyk the second half, apart from the last five minutes, when they menaceened us once or twice.
“We take parted the perfect game, except for scoring goals, it was the same for PSG last week when they take parted the perfect game and didn’t score, and it happened to us today.”
He inserted: “It’s always difficult if you put so much effort in, for the first 25 minutes I’ve never seen them so presentile and so ardent as they were today, and then you see at the scoreboard and you’re 1-0 down, an cursed goal as well. When you put in so much effort that’s sometimes difficult and in the finish it comes down to penalties and we, as Dutch, understand how to leave out [on penalties].”
Slot will be hoping his take parters will bounce back this weekfinish when they get on Newcastle United at Wembley Stadium in the League Cup final. Kick-off from the national stadium is at 4:30pm on Sunday afternoon.
