Euro 2024: Van Dijk slams controversial referee after Netherlands dumped out

Netherlands skipper Virgil van Dijk was near furious pinch referee Felix Zwayer pursuing his side’s exit from Euro 2024.

Ollie Watkins collapsed Dutch hearts successful nan dying minutes aft firing debased past Bart Verbruggen.

Van Dijk’s broadside had stood patient for astir of nan match, too giving distant a arguable punishment successful nan first half.

And that incident, alongside a fewer different calls, was thing nan Liverpool man took rumor with.

He had nary problem expressing his anger aft nan match, saying: “I don’t cognize what I should say, I don’t cognize if I should opportunity thing astir this.

“I said it extracurricular to our Dutch media, it says it each that nan ref went successful rather quickly aft nan crippled and had nary clip to shingle his hand.

“It says it each that nan ref went successful rather quickly aft nan crippled and had nary clip to shingle his hand.”

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“It is what it is, nan crippled is done, it’s very reliable to take.

“Certain moments it’s evident that it [decisions] should’ve gone our way, it didn’t. I don’t cognize what to say, it’s difficult to judge this.

“It’s been a very agelong year, a reliable year. We had a large dream and we felt for illustration we could’ve achieved it arsenic a team. unluckily it didn’t happen.”

The Netherlands person not been astatine their champion during nan tourney but did what they must to flooded their opponents successful nan knockout stages.

It was a existent heartbreaking extremity to nan tourney for Ronald Koeman’s broadside and Van Dijk added that they measurement they went retired is reliable to take.

“Throughout nan full tourney we’ve seen truthful galore sides of our team.

“Good sides successful nan attacking form, nan protect form… but coming was a bully game.

“But to concede a extremity successful nan past infinitesimal is ever difficult to accept, particularly erstwhile it’s a knockout, successful a semi-final, shattering our dreams successful nan last game.”

England will spell connected to look Spain successful nan last connected Sunday.