What Virgil van Dijk did – and Arne Slot didn’t – after Amara Nallo red card

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Amara Nallo suffered a cruel night in Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat at home to Crystal Palace, with Arne Slot revealing that two players consoled him in the dressing room. Speaking in his press conference after the game, Slot revealed that Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk were quick to talk to the young defender straight after his dismissal at Anfield.

“I didn’t need to say that much,” Slot said. “Because another thing which I liked – it’s not the most important thing – but Ibou [Konate] and Virgil [van Dijk] immediately went inside to talk to him.

“So that tells me that they are great human beings in a moment like this when a young player for the second time is being sent off – maybe the first time after he played against PSV [Eindhoven], I’m not 100 per cent sure, but I think he did – that they feel how difficult that moment for him is, to go inside and be supportive for him. These two already took care of him.” While Konate and Van Dijk were brilliant in consoling Nallo, who will no doubt be feeling down after breaking an unwanted record, it seems odd that Slot suggested there was no need to provide further support.