Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk accused his team of giving up and apologised to fans following their FA Cup humiliation at Manchester City.

The Reds' hopes of salvaging domestic silverware from a disappointing season were crushed in a 4-0 quarter-final defeat at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.

After an evenly-matched opening half-hour, the visitors capitulated after Van Dijk fouled Nico O'Reilly and Erling Haaland scored the resulting penalty before Haaland went on to complete a hat-trick as City struck four times in a devastating 18-minute spell spanning the interval.

Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai claimed his team-mates lacked the mentality to recover from the setback and boss Arne Slot agreed that their reaction to Haaland's opener was not good enough.

Van Dijk said: "I can only apologise to the fans for what we have shown, especially the second half.

"Obviously you come out with the right intentions from the dressing room, to hopefully score for 2-1 as soon as possible to change the game.

"The opposite happens and to come back from 3-0 is obviously very difficult here - but also you shouldn't give up and that's maybe, at a certain point, what happened.

"We let our fans down, we let ourselves...