Liverpool protector Virgil van Dijk seemed to step on the punishment spot not long before Jarrod Bowen's work was saved by Alisson in the Reds' 1-0 win over West Ham on Wednesday night.

Jurgen Klopp's men got their second progressive triumph in the Chief Association and look be restoring their certainty following a troublesome season up until this point - yet it was not direct against the Mallets as Darwin Nunez's strike ended up being the main objective of the game.

Furthermore, West Ham might have grabbed an outcome from the game had Bowen not missed his work, however a few extremely observant fans recognized that not long before he cushioned his work, Van Dijk had seemed to place his studs into the punishment spot.

After West Ham had been granted a punishment on the stroke of half time - when Joe Gomez had felled Bowen - the Dutchman was seen walking advances from his own objective, and hoped to have tried to step on the turf where Bowen was going to take his kick, prior to leaving.

Bowen appropriately neglected to change over and Liverpool manager Alisson got up to palm his left footed strike away on his right side.

'Van Dijk scraping the punishment spot,' read one more post from an opponent ally. 'That is a straight red card. Nauseating and merits an extensive boycott.'

One West Ham fan marked Van Dijk's shenanigans as 'gamesmanship' however wouldn't fault him for the punishment miss and on second thought blamed Bowen.

'As a West Ham fan I definitely approve of this "gamesmanship" yet the punishment was cack!'

Liverpool are presently up to seventh in the table - four focuses off fourth-set Chelsea - and Klopp hailed their presentation and said the club had a 'vital period' before the World Cup to attempt to crush out whatever number outcomes as could reasonably be expected.

'Without a doubt difficult this evening however we played all around ok - and in minutes, great. Eventually, out and out, all around ok to merit three focuses.'

'I think the main half was a great first half, with a terrible consummation for us with the punishment - however at that point with a decent completion since Ali could save the punishment,' Klopp added.

'It actually left somewhat of a terrible taste like we were fortunate however first half we were not - we played an outstanding game.

'We played great football, we made, we scored a superb objective, hit the post, Lukasz Fabianski with extraordinary recoveries and huge blocks in the definitive regions from West Ham, yet we didn't play that well in the final part, so that is the reason the game opened up.

'It is a vital, extreme period for all groups so you need to crush results out and presently in three days' time the following battle (Nottingham Woodland away) is standing by as of now.'