PREMIER - Liverpool, Van Dijk: "West Ham managed to gamble with counterattacks"

Assessing Liverpool latest PL defeat, occurred by the hands of current league sensation West Ham, Reds star centre-back, Virgil Van Dijk, stated:

"It’s a proper knock. We have to pick ourselves up and make sure we are ready after the international break. It was an intense game, I think first half there was nothing really wrong. We played OK, I think in moments played well. We tried to find the spaces in between their lines and obviously they defend well. We had to be patient and scored the deserved equaliser, in my opinion, then second half we were a bit too rash maybe. We wanted maybe to score the 2-1 a bit too much. Obviously they gambled on the counter-attacks with leaving players up: that’s a strength of theirs and then it was quite an open game. 

No, it wasn't about being too rash in the second half. It’s a good thing that we want to score the 2-1, of course, but sometimes you just have to be more composed, more patient and keep the ball a little bit longer, let them run a little bit more. I think that was maybe the case just after half-time. That’s my reflection now. It’s difficult to say but overall we are very disappointed to lose it, of course. But it is what it is".