‘Clown’ - Fans react after Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk gifts West Ham chance

Jacque Talbot

• 26 Apr 2023 14:20 CDT
• 5 min read

Virgil van Dijk gifted West Ham a chance in Liverpool’s Premier League encounter with West Ham.

In the opening stages, the centre-back had the ball in possession, but for some reason made his pass right into the path of Jarrod Bowen.

The Hammers did not score from the mistake - but supporters online spoke about the incident nonetheless, tearing into the Reds legend for the mishap.

Virgil van Dijk 💀pic.twitter.com/L8YFIGG11H

— Football Report (@FootballReprt) April 26, 2023

Virg has fallen off a cliff

— PM (@miodzioLFC10) April 26, 2023

Can’t lie. Van Dijk is finished. Send him to China or Saudi please.

— Honorable 💛💫 (@dabiri_adewale) April 26, 2023

What is van Dijk ACTUALLY doing

— TheWalker (@walker07_the) April 26, 2023

The Van Dijk/Matip partnership is finished man

— Jamz (@JamzLFC786) April 26, 2023

Was absolutely right when i said Van Dijk doesn’t know the difference between Active and Passive Defending and when to use them🤝#WestHamUnited #WHULIV

— ᦔꫀᦓꪑꪮꪀᦔ 🫧 (@clefcole) April 26, 2023

breh that was Van Dijk kind of defending there. The man na double agent

— Horsfall. (@Tk_anomaly) April 26, 2023

West Ham take the lead

And it wasn’t long after that Lucas Paqueta opened the scoring for his side with a fine strike from outside the box.

Ahead of the game, Jurgen Klopp heaped praise on West Ham, saying that they are where they are owing to injuries and poor luck.

“If they can go through the season without big injuries then they can play some super stuff like they did last season. We have to uncomfortable to play against. It's an away game and thank God we won one of those recently.

'They have a good team and have shown quality again. [This will be a] difficult game for us.'

'West Ham is a top, top, top set piece team as well. We have to be prepared for that again. The ball will be on the ground from time to time so we have to be ready for that.'