Things did not work out for the Netherlands team on Friday against Ecuador (1-1) and a legend of the ‘oranje’ like Marco van Basten was critical along with others, despite his great performance, Virgil van Dijk, in this This is the case because the three-time Ballon d’Or winner believes that Liverpool’s emblematic defender did not do a good job as captain. Van Dijk answered Van Basten.
Van Basten told the NOS channel about Van Dijk in a brutal attack on the man who now wears the Dutch national team bracelet: “He doesn’t take the lead. He doesn’t take care of the team. He makes a sound, but he nothing is said, this is what he does.”
Van Dijk, who is Liverpool’s third captain after Jordan Henderson and James Milner, said of Van Basten: “It’s not always positive. What should I do with these statements? It’s easy to speak from the studio and criticize like that. What went wrong as the captain? I was always at the forefront and led the team in the best way possible.”
Van Dijk did not like the opinion expressed by Van Basten about the performance of ‘oranje’ against Ecuador. The Netherlands drew on Friday against the Ecuadorian team (1-1) and in their debut they beat Senegal (0-2), where they have 4 points in group A. The same as Ecuador.
Source: La Verdad
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