What Lucas Bergvall said to Virgil van Dijk as Liverpool star rages at Stuart Attwell

Tottenham Hotspur take the advantage into the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final against Liverpool, after a 1-0 home win in the first leg on Wednesday night.

Spurs took a step closer to a Wembley final thanks to Lucas Bergvall’s second half strike. The goal came just seven minutes after Dominic Solanke had a goal ruled out for offside after a VAR check.

Bergvall’s winning goal left Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk fuming at referee Stuart Atwell. The defender thought that the Spurs man should have been shown a second yellow card for a challenge on Konstantinos Tsimikas.

A matter of seconds after the challenge, Bergvall scored the decisive goal of the game. In a conversation with van Dijk, the Spurs man defended himself. With van Dijk telling the referee “It was a second yellow.”

Bergvall was spotted saying: “The first one. The first one I didn’t touch him.” The Tottenham man was referring to the yellow card he did receive in the 68th minute.

Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, Van Dijk gave his thoughts on the decision not to send the Spurs man off. “I think it was quite obvious that it was going to be a second yellow, I think it was pretty clear,” he said.

“Then it was a coincidence that a minute later he scores the winner. But, listen, it is what it is, he (the referee) made a mistake in my opinion and I told him that, he thinks maybe he didn’t but it was quite obvious I think and everyone on the sidelines knew exactly that it was supposed to be a yellow.”

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