Virgil van Dijk says the referee needs 'to be held accountable' for his performance in their semi-final defeat
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00:00You look particularly frustrated with the referees performance tonight.
00:03Yes.
00:05What specifically were you unhappy about?
00:07Certain decisions, but listen, I think referees can also make mistakes,
00:11but we speak about that we can communicate with the referee and we can do this
00:16and that obviously, when I got the yellow card, that was unnecessary.
00:19But, you know, certain decisions didn't go our way
00:23and I don't want to put that blame in the fact that we lost the game.
00:27Obviously, it impacted the game a couple of times
00:30and, yeah, obviously everyone is trying to help the referees nowadays,
00:35but they also have to be accountable as well at times.
00:40Were you happy that a referee who had been banned for match-fixing was taking part in this semi-final?
00:45What do you want? You want me to get me in trouble here?
00:46No, but it was a talking point before the game.
00:48Yeah, but he did our game against Romania and I think that game he was alright,
00:51so you don't want to get me in trouble.
00:53That's for you guys to discuss.