PREMIER - Liverpool, Van Dijk dismissing quarrels on West Ham's first goal

Still speaking up about Liverpool losing, just before the break, against West Ham, Reds prominent backliner Virgil Van Dijk stated:

"West Ham’s first goal? Listen, the goal counts, it stands. I don’t know exactly what happens but I saw the whole time that Ali was being man-marked and stuff, so with the rules nowadays no-one knows exactly what is allowed, yes or no, sometimes they give it and sometimes they don’t and today counts. But what I said, there was nothing wrong. Even after that we still had almost the whole game to come back from it, but we were of course disappointed to come 1-0 down. 

Obviously you can’t oppose to that, because the striker in this case was standing next to him, so you can’t obviously push him away because they might give a penalty so it’s just on the officials to see if it’s a foul, yes or no. It could have been a foul but what can you do now after the game? You can’t change it, and what I said, we still had the whole game to come back.

Now we are just going to focus on the next game but now it’s the international break. Everyone is going away so it’s just make sure that you recover well, play well, play for your country and come back fresh and healthy and clear-minded for a very tough game against Arsenal. That’s the only thing we can do".