{"id":233742,"date":"2025-10-30T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233742\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:38:10","slug":"van-dijk-seen-going-to-console-nallo-after-red-card-v-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233742\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Dijk seen going to console Nallo after red card v Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amara Nallo made just his second competitive appearance for Liverpool tonight, but just like his debut, it was all too brief.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old had only four minutes on the pitch when he came on against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last January before being sent off<\/a>, and he was subjected to a similar fate on Wednesday as Crystal Palace dumped the Reds out of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n

He lasted slightly longer this time, being introduced in the 67th minute but getting his marching orders on 79 minutes for a professional foul on Justin Devenny.<\/p>\n

Van Dijk goes to console Nallo after red card<\/p>\n

It was another blow for Nallo so early in his footballing career, and the Liverpool captain went in pursuit of the teenager to provide some consoling words after the red card.<\/p>\n

Stephen Warnock observed on BBC Radio 5 Live<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cWhat a horrible feeling for the youngster, Amara Nallo. There is nothing worse than knowing you have been sent off on your debut. Then there is the next game, you make an error and it leads to another sending off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have just seen Virgil van Dijk walk down the tunnel. You have to try pick the youngster up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Amara(Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Another learning experince for Nallo<\/p>\n

Nallo now has the unenviable record of playing 16 senior minutes for Liverpool and being sent off twice, in both instances paying the price for denying a goalscoring opportunity.<\/p>\n

The red card tonight didn\u2019t exactly alter the course of the game \u2013 Palace were already cruising at 2-0 when the 18-year-old received his marching orders \u2013 but it\u2019ll be deeply disappointing for the defender on a personal level that his night ended prematurely.<\/p>\n

If Van Dijk made a beeline for the teenager to console him \u2013 as appeared to be the case \u2013 it reflects well on the Reds captain to put an arm around the shoulder of a young player who\u2019s already had a couple of tough moments so early in his LFC career.<\/p>\n

For Nallo, it\u2019s now a matter of learning from this experience and having the mental fortitude to recover from such a setback. He\u2019s clearly a talented young footballer if he\u2019s played for Liverpool\u2019s first team, so hopefully his quality can shine through and he\u2019ll put this night behind him quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amara Nallo made just his second competitive appearance for Liverpool tonight, but just like his debut, it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-233742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}