Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool usually are not taking something with no consideration after sustaining their push for an unprecedented quadruple by beating Tottenham to make the EFL Cup ultimate.
Liverpool entered Thursday’s semi-final second leg needing to overturn a 1-0 deficit, however after Cody Gakpo opened the scoring within the first half, it was clean crusing.
Mohamed Salah powered dwelling a penalty early within the second half, then Dominik Szoboszlai and Van Dijk scored to place the tie past all doubt.
Liverpool at the moment are right into a record-extending fifteenth EFL Cup ultimate, with Newcastle United mendacity in wait following their 4-0 mixture overcome Arsenal within the different last-four tie.
Arne Slot’s Reds additionally lead the Premier League desk by six factors with a sport in hand and are among the many favourites to win the Champions League and the FA Cup.
Van Dijk, nevertheless, is for certain they won’t let up.
“We would have liked a whole efficiency. At half-time I assumed we may go a stage up with extra depth,” the Reds captain informed Sky Sports activities.
“However to win right here like we did tonight is nice for the workforce and the membership. For those who deliver depth to the sport, anyone could make errors. It was a stupendous win in the present day.
“Nights like this, the place there’s quite a bit at stake, we didn’t take it with no consideration. All of us needed to go there [Wembley] once more with the followers, and it was a terrific workforce efficiency.
“We’re in February now, and we can’t complain concerning the state of affairs we’re in, however we must always not take any of that with no consideration and never be straightforward on one another. I don’t see that occuring.”
Since making his Liverpool debut in January 2018, Van Dijk has scored 26 targets in all competitions – greater than some other Premier League defender.
Tottenham didn’t document a single shot on the right track for the primary time in any sport underneath Ange Postecoglou, who was most disenchanted with the way of the defeat.
“It’s honest to say we didn’t get to the degrees we would have liked to tonight. It was all the time going to be an enormous problem for us,” he stated in his post-match press convention.
“They’re clearly an excellent facet and in a terrific second with all their gamers in superb type, very settled.
“However for us to offer ourselves a possibility, we needed to be much more aggressive with and with out the ball and we weren’t.
“We allowed them to manage the sport and dictate the place it was performed. Ultimately, they have been too good for us.
“It’s disappointing. It was a terrific alternative for us to get to a ultimate. We didn’t give ourselves an opportunity to take the chance, which might be extra disappointing.”
Requested if Spurs’ prolonged damage checklist made it tough to guage their outcomes, Postecoglou added: “I don’t fear about being judged or who’s judging.
“I believe finally my accountability is to attempt to get the gamers I’ve to carry out to the very best of their talents and to deal with the issues we’ve got bought in the meanwhile.”
