NEWCASTLE, UK (AP) — Newcastle forward Anthony Gordon has apologised to Virgil Vandick for his reckless challenge, captaining Liverpool and winning a red card. Wild Premier League Match Between teams.
Fired Gordon sprinted towards Vandic, slamming Vandic’s right calves and Dutch International into the centre with an out-of-control tackle leaving visible scuffs in the ground pile along his socks.
Gordon, who was initially given a yellow card, saw the punishment being upgraded to a red card following the VAR review. At the time, the score was 1-0 for Liverpool, and visitors ran out of 3-2 winners on Monday thanks to a 10-minute goal of stoppage time by the 16-year-old replacement, Rio Nugumo.
Gordon took me to Instagram On Tuesday, he said sorry for the tackle and that he “intention was pure.”
“I was just trying to create energy in the game and I made a mistake in the tackle,” Gordon said. “I want to apologise to Virgil too. I don’t think I’ll be intentionally working on someone like this. We talk later and he knows that.”
Van Dick and Gordon discussed each other, and Judge Simon Hooper saw the incident on a pitchside monitor before awarding the red card.
“If it’s not a send-out, I told him, I don’t understand football,” Van Dik said. “Unfortunately, these things happen in football. Whether he means that or not, it happened. We’ll move on.”
For Gordon, it was the second red card in six months.
“I’m back and like all the other setbacks I’ve ever faced,” he wrote.
Gordon will be suspended for the next three domestic games:
He was filling up as a Newcastle striker because of the absence of Alexander Isaac. I want to leave the club With the reports of interest from Liverpool, they are not currently training with the main team. That meant there was a hostile atmosphere at St. James Park during Monday’s game.
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