- Four people were sent after a fight broke out after the final whistle
- Van Dijk states that an Everton player caused the fight and questioned the referee
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The captain of Liverpool, Virgil Van Dijk, called Everton's midfielder Abdoulaye Douucure, for generating a fight at the launch when the Merseyside derby descended to chaos.
James Tarkowski scored a 98 -minute equalizer for Everton and Van Dijk acknowledges that Doucoure prompted a melee fight after the game that saw four people expelled. Arne Slot, his assistant Sipke Huloff and Curtis Jones joined Doucoure to see Red.
The Everton midfielder ran at the end and Van Dijk said: 'You saw that they celebrated the goal, they have all the right. Doucoure wanted to provoke our fans. Curtis did not believe it was the right thing. The referee did not have the game under control. I told him.
'It was a very large provocation of a player. We all saw it and reacted as a team as we could do. You know what happens today, it becomes a great fight. So it is not me who has to deal with that, it is the referee and today I am not sure that I have had it completely under control '.
Some fans entered the playing field when Pandemonium occurred in the last seconds of the Final Mersyside derby in Goodison Park and the scene after the game saw a great fight between the players and the staff.
Beto had put the toffees ahead after 11 minutes, but Alexis Mac Allister soon matched. Mohamed Salah scored a 73 -minute goal and Liverpool was heading to nine points of Claro before Tarkowski's late intervention.
Virgil Van Dijk accused referee Michael Oliver of losing control of the Merseyside derby after sending four people
A fight broke out after the final whistle after 98 -minute equalizer
Van Dijk believes that the Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure caused the fight with his 'very big provocation' after celebrating in front of Liverpool fans
The late goal reached four games followed by the league without defeat for David Moyes, who said: 'The emotions were high all night, the stadium was in a fever. You could see what it meant for fans at the end of the game, the crowd swing. It was one of the big nights.
'If you had given me (the beginning) for me before I entered, I would have taken it all day. We have a long way to go, there is much we can do to improve a lot and try to return to the levels to which I think we can return.
“Hopefully the light shines on us if we can pass this season and the new owners enter and help us build a new team and a new better level of actions in Everton.”
On the red card to Doucure, Moyes said: 'I didn't see it from where I was. I have had the opportunity to see it and I am disappointed because Doucoure played very well tonight and now I will lose it because it has a second yellow card that was put in red. “
Due to the red cards, Slot was not allowed to do their media tasks after the game. Normally in these circumstances, the clubs would present the manager's assistant for an interview, but HULSHOFF was also expelled. Johnny Heititinga will take the team on Sunday against Wolves.