{"id":930406,"date":"2026-10-12T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930406\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:52:11","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-warns-manchester-city-players-to-get-used-to-hostile-atmospheres-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930406\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk warns Manchester City players to get used to hostile atmospheres | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virgil van Dijk has suggested Manchester City\u2019s treatment at the hands of the Liverpool crowd on Sunday was a sign of things to come and something their players will have to get used to. The Liverpool captain also indicated he would make his views known about City\u2019s rule-breaking but said he wanted to wait until their appeal was completed.<\/p>\n

City were barracked throughout the game at Anfield<\/a>, their first since they were found guilty of almost all the charges<\/a> they faced in relation to breaking the Premier League\u2019s financial rules between 2009 and 2018. An independent commission declared that City had overstated their income by \u00a3830.69m and would have been in breach of spending regulations in the Premier League and Europe if they had provided a true picture of their finances.<\/p>\n

The Anfield crowd denounced City as cheats in various chants and Van Dijk said it was impossible for the players not to hear them. City were unaffected, running out 3-0 winners<\/a> after the game turned on the 62nd-minute dismissal of the Liverpool midfielder Ryan Gravenberch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone could hear it,\u201d Van Dijk said. \u201cEveryone can share their feelings and I don\u2019t think Anfield will be the only place where it will be the case because fans will have their feelings. But for players I don\u2019t think it is a good idea at this moment in time [to share their feelings].\u201d<\/p>\n

City\u2019s appeal hearing must be completed before Christmas and a verdict then communicated within 30 days. They continue to deny wrongdoing. \u201cIt\u2019s still a little bit ongoing so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s smart for me to comment on it right now,\u201d Van Dijk said. \u201cBut when the [appeal] verdict comes out I will definitely have my opinion and I will probably share it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Dijk was asked about City beating Liverpool<\/a> to titles. Did it change how he felt about those battles? \u201cNo,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I really enjoyed our rivalry and it was a great rivalry on the pitch. What happened off the pitch is for others to find a conclusion on and then let\u2019s\u00a0see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Dijk was unhappy about the Gravenberch sending-off, complaining that his teammate\u2019s first yellow card for a foul on Elliot Anderson was soft. Liverpool also highlighted what they felt was an inconsistency after their player Ronald Ara\u00fajo was booked early on for waving an imaginary card and demanding that Marc Gu\u00e9hi be booked for diving.<\/p>\n

When Gravenberch fouled the City substitute J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku for his second yellow, Erling Haaland held up his right hand and appeared to suggest the offence merited a booking. Meanwhile, R\u00faben Dias and Gu\u00e9hi ran towards the referee, Chris Kavanagh, with Gu\u00e9hi appearing to point towards the tunnel. Kavanagh took no action against the City\u00a0players.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWas the red card the right decision? That\u2019s for others [to decide],\u201d Van Dijk said. \u201cI don\u2019t even know how the first yellow card [for Gravenberch] was. But after the first minute when Ara\u00fajo got a yellow card for asking for a yellow card, there were so many other players from the other team asking for a red card. That\u2019s just that. We can\u2019t use it as an excuse. We went down to 10 men and conceded pretty quickly after that and then it\u2019s a very tough one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk has suggested Manchester City\u2019s treatment at the hands of the Liverpool crowd on Sunday was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-930406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}