{"id":171031,"date":"2024-04-12T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/12\/virgil-van-dijk-sends-warning-to-liverpool-teammates-after-atalanta-shock\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:07:55","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-sends-warning-to-liverpool-teammates-after-atalanta-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/12\/virgil-van-dijk-sends-warning-to-liverpool-teammates-after-atalanta-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk sends warning to Liverpool teammates after Atalanta shock \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk insisted there is \u2018no point\u2019 in his side showing up for the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final with Atalanta if they don\u2019t think they can overturn a 3-0 deficit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Reds were stunned by the Serie A side on Thursday night, who will take a\u00a0three-goal cushion back to Italy\u00a0for the return fixture next week. Gianluca Scamacca scored either side of half-time before Mario Pasalic rounded off proceedings late in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk\u00a0fronted up to the cameras post-match and hit out at his teammates for a string of individual errors, but urged them to remain positive if they are to conjure up another memorable European comeback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it\u2019s not great. A very, very disappointing evening. Too many individual mistakes and we got punished for it. It feels bad,\u201d Van Dijk told\u00a0<em>TNT Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the man-marking system they do, we have to do much better. When we have the ball we have to do better and be much stronger. The spaces were open and they punished us immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very disappointing night for all of us but we can\u2019t dwell on it for too long. We need everyone to look forward to another big game. We have to switch back onto getting results.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hv8qyscgngmra3wp1e.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Mac Allister, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson\" title=\"Alexis Mac Allister, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Liverpool have work to do next week \/ Richard Sellers\/Allstar\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWe were wide open. It\u2019s more that we conceded the goals because we lost the ball in difficult areas. It hurts. But it can\u2019t put us down. We have to react pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurts of course. We haven\u2019t lost here for a long time. But we shouldn\u2019t take the credit away from them. They punished us for being sloppy in possession. We still had chances to score one or two and unfortunately we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t believe, there\u2019s no point going to Italy. We have made it very hard for ourselves going there 3-0 down. But the way to bounce back is by winning the game on the weekend. We need everyone to switch it back on. Then we can focus on putting out at least four goals over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u00a0won 5-0 in their only previous visit to Atalanta, with Diogo Jota scoring a hat-trick in their Champions League group stage meeting in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk insisted there is \u2018no point\u2019 in his side showing up for the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final with Atalanta if they don\u2019t think they can overturn a 3-0 deficit. 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