{"id":566123,"date":"2026-04-05T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:14:07","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-liverpool-captain-says-reds-gave-up-in-fa-cup-exit-to-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566123\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk: Liverpool captain says Reds ‘gave up’ in FA Cup exit to Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> captain Virgil van Dijk has apologised to the club’s supporters and said his side “gave up” as they were dumped out of the FA Cup by Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Reds’ hopes of winning silverware this season now rest on Champions League glory following Saturday’s humbling 4-0 quarter-final defeat at Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/a> demolished Liverpool<\/a> in an 18-minute period which spanned the half-time break, scoring twice either side of the interval following an evenly matched opening half an hour.<\/p>\n

“I can only apologise to the fans for what we have shown, especially the second half,” said Netherlands centre-back Van Dijk, 34.<\/p>\n

“Obviously you come out with the right intentions from the dressing room [after half-time], to hopefully score for 2-1 as soon as possible to change the game.<\/p>\n

“The opposite happens and to come back from 3-0 is obviously very difficult here – but also you shouldn’t give up and that’s maybe, at a certain point, what happened.<\/p>\n

“We let our fans down, we let ourselves down, and the manager. <\/p>\n

“The way we played in the second half, especially, must hurt for everyone. It definitely hurts me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has apologised to the club’s supporters and said his side “gave up” as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-566123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}