When you are as good and as cool as Virgil van Dijk, perhaps it is inevitable a referee or VAR will occasionally give you the benefit of the doubt. Although referee Craig Pawson decided Van Dijk ...

Virgil van Dijk was involved in a flashpoint with Richarlison in the first half of Liverpool's Carabao Cup semi-final second ...

As is often the case with captains, Van Dijk certainly led the way on the physical front. Unfortunately for Tottenham's Richarlison, he bore the brunt of it as early as the third minute.