{"id":11867,"date":"2025-03-11T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2025-03-11T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:34:57","slug":"wayne-rooney-blasts-lazy-liverpool-star-at-fault-for-paris-saint-germain-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/wayne-rooney-blasts-lazy-liverpool-star-at-fault-for-paris-saint-germain-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney blasts \u2018lazy\u2019 Liverpool star at fault for Paris Saint-Germain goal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rooney was not impressed with Liverpool’s defending (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wayne Rooney<\/a> blasted the \u2018lazy\u2019 Virgil van Dijk<\/a> after naming the Liverpool<\/a> star at fault for Paris<\/a> Saint-Germain\u2019s opener against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.<\/a><\/p>\n

After their snatch-and-grab job in Paris last week<\/a>, Liverpool found themselves a goal behind after 12 minutes at Anfield in Wednesday\u2019s return leg with a place in the quarter-finals of the competition up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Dembele started the move for the visitors, moving the ball out wide to Bradley Barcola before racing into the box for the return pass.<\/p>\n

Despite having Dominik Szoboszlai and Ibrahima Konate for company with Alisson Becker also rushing out from goal, the France international was able to smuggle the ball over the line for his 29th<\/sup> goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney, on punditry duty with Amazon Prime, singled out van Dijk for failing to sense the danger as his side fell behind, also laying some of the blame at the feet of his defensive partner Konate.<\/p>\n

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\u2018This goal from Liverpool’s point of view is wrong in so many different ways,\u2019 Rooney said at half-time.<\/p>\n

\u2018They are trying to press the ball and van Dijk gets lazy. If you keep your eyes on van Dijk here, he is walking. He leaves a massive gap for Dembele.<\/p>\n

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Van Dijk was deemed at fault for PSG’s opener (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018All he has to do is come across to Dembele because there is no other pass for Paris to get out but he doesn’t.<\/p>\n

\u2018Now Dembele has got a lot of space. And Konate again, he doesn’t switch on, Dembele makes a good run and it\u2019s a tap in.\u2019<\/p>\n

Former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge praised Dembele for \u2018staying engaged\u2019 but suggested a lack of communication among the Reds led to the early setback.<\/p>\n

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Demeble silenced Anfield (Picture: EPA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018It is communication in moments like this,\u2019 Sturridge said. \u2018We talking about van Dijk, Szoboszlai and Konate.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fair play to Dembele here for following the chance and staying engaged in the moment because you can switch off in those moments but he found himself in the position.<\/p>\n

\u2018But they will be very upset in the goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rooney was not impressed with Liverpool’s defending (Picture: Getty Images) Wayne Rooney blasted the \u2018lazy\u2019 Virgil van Dijk after naming the Liverpool star at fault for Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s opener against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. After their snatch-and-grab job in Paris last week, Liverpool found themselves a goal behind after 12 minutes at Anfield…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}