So cool, calm and picked up our Dutch No.4, Virgil van Dijk, is you could’t assist however really feel somewhat shocked when the centre-back is struck by a second of carelessness.
The previous Southampton man obtained his facet into some early hassle within the opening minutes of motion at Portman Highway with a careless move from the again discovering itself on the ft of an Ipswich participant.
Luckily, his defensive accomplice, Jarell Quansah, was available to ship a probably game-defining block to kill the risk.
Precisely the sort of factor, we suspect, Arne Slot was talking about when criticising his facet’s tendency to go for dangerous passes.
You possibly can catch the clip beneath, courtesy of Canal+ on X (by way of Si Senor):
Van Dijk with an error however Huge Quansah steps up and stops the shot pic.twitter.com/hfSGg23ako
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