How Virgil Van Dijk cheated to make Santi carzola miss a penalty

Virgil van Dijk is ready to use illegal tactics to win. Santi Cazorla and Arsenal nearly paid the price, he tried to cheat so the Spaniard would miss his penalty.

When Virgil played for Southampton, Fonte conceded a penalty and Van Dijk damaged the penalty spot to hinder Cazorla’s shot. Southampton were holding draw at the Emirate Stadium.

Van DIjk said:”It’s a penalty in the last minute so you try to do anything to prevent the goal and that’s what I did but it didn’t work. I’m a winner and I want to win obviously and lose like this is hard.”

This winner’s mentality has taken him a long way. Van Dijk has the performances and the flaws of another great Sergio Ramos but he even surpassed him by finishing Second in the Ballon d’ Or.

This was not the first time the penalty spot has been sabotaged, there are 2 similar cases of penalty sabotage. The goalkeeper Marwin Hitz did it once in the Bundesliga and his plan worked unlike Virgil van Dijk’s.

He was very discreet about it in 2015, while Hitz teammate argued with the referee about the penalty, he sabotaged the penalty spot with his cleats. Anthony Modeste then missed his penalty and his supporting foot have slipped because of the hole. Augsburg won 1-o against Cologne but Marwin Hitz later apologized for his action.

Lee Bum-young did the same thing for South Korea, Just like Fabio Bilica but he didn’t even try to hide it. But he wasn’t penalized by the referee.