Roy Keane criticises “big player” Virgil van Dijk – “Have a good look at yourself”

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“When you’re the centre-half and you’re a big player, and last year we were on about who’s going to stay and he signs the big contract, and then you’re giving up loads of goals, then I’d be looking at him. “If you’re the centre-half and your team are all of a sudden giving up loads of goals, you’ve got new people coming to your club, you’ve got to have a good look at yourself, ‘am I really helping these lads?

“Little incidents we saw with the [first] goal there – yes, we’ll give United plaudits – but I do look at him going, ‘are you really sprinting back?’. “United’s attacking players, certainly, had a bit of a swagger about them, whereas Liverpool, they struggled to deal with that.” Van Dijk failed to get back to cut out Bryan Mbeumo’s first-minute opener for United after clashing with team-mate Alexis Mac Allister.

We worked so hard to get back into the game, we created opportunities to score the winner, but if you concede the second goal like that, obviously, that’s the disappointing part. “Overall, if you look at the game, we were far too rushed.