{"id":41203,"date":"2024-07-11T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-the-referee-ran-inside-van-dijk-makes-claim-after-england-defeat\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T07:00:27","slug":"euro-2024-the-referee-ran-inside-van-dijk-makes-claim-after-england-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-the-referee-ran-inside-van-dijk-makes-claim-after-england-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: The referee ran inside \u2013 Van Dijk makes claim after England defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Captain of the Netherlands, Virgil van Dijk, has hit out at the reaction of referee, Felix Zwayer following their 2-1 defeat to England in their Euro 2024 semi-final on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch lost the game despite taking the lead through Xavi Simons.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kane equalized from the spot, before Ollie Watkins scored in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Kane\u2019s penalty was awarded after Denzel Dumfries attempted to block a shot but ended up clipping the England captain on the foot.<\/p>\n<p>The VAR team recommended referee Zwayer to review his decision and the German official opted to award Gareth Southgate\u2019s side a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Zwayer\u2019s performance, Van Dijk told beIN Sports: \u201cI don\u2019t know what to say, I don\u2019t know if I should say something about this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think it says it all that the referee went in quite quickly after the game, and had no time to shake his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: The referee ran inside \u2013 Van Dijk makes claim after England defeat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain of the Netherlands, Virgil van Dijk, has hit out at the reaction of referee, Felix Zwayer following their 2-1&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4187,15,160,7104],"tags":[1279,235,8,1571,238,7106,2718,2716,17093,415,180,20535,1149,201,1098,7105],"class_list":["post-41203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-news","category-sport","category-van-dijk","tag-1279","tag-after","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-claim","tag-defeat","tag-dijk","tag-england","tag-euro","tag-inside","tag-makes","tag-news","tag-ran","tag-referee","tag-sport","tag-the","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}