Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk admits they don’t need to win the Premier League after the unacceptable means the gamers have allowed the season to finish.
Simply over a month in the past they had been chasing an unprecedented however unlikely quadruple however every week after exiting Europe their Premier League title hopes had been left in tatters after dropping 2-0 at Everton within the 244th Merseyside derby.
Already third favourites within the title race, defeat means Jurgen Klopp’s last season is prone to finish with simply the Carabao Cup and Van Dijk criticised the final lack of urge for food to pull issues again of their favour at Goodison Park.
“Video games likes these, the naked minimal is battle. We had been missing that at so many moments in video games,” mentioned the Netherlands captain.
“In case you play like we did, clearly even when we create two or three clear-cut possibilities once more, you don’t need to win the league.
“It’s crunch time and we’ve not been ok in the best way we completed the probabilities off, in the best way we defended collectively and in addition the battle. I believe we have now to point out rather more.
“However we have now to look within the mirror and every one in every of us has to suppose like… ‘Hear, you possibly can’t settle for this. You possibly can’t settle for the best way we let our season finish’.”
Klopp’s facet seem like they’ve been operating on empty for the final month whereas additionally missing the scientific edge which has for thus lengthy been a trademark.
Regardless of making a handful of possibilities which they failed to soak up the primary half they petered out after the break in related vogue to final week’s Europa League win over Atalanta in Bergamo after they wanted to overturn a 3-0 first-leg deficit however managed only one objective.
Liverpool haven’t been enjoying properly for a few months and have pulled just a few outcomes out of the fireplace however they’ve uncharacteristically crumbled on the key time.
“Clearly it’s a mixture of all the pieces. You possibly can’t put a finger on it,” added Van Dijk.
“It’s confidence, inexperience, challenges, perhaps afraid to make errors on this a part of the season. I don’t know.
“It’s a mixture nevertheless it brings us to the scenario the place we will’t settle for this.
“We’ve got to stay collectively. We will’t have teams blaming one another as a result of that’s not the way it works. It’s a group factor and I don’t blame anybody.
“I blame us as a group, as a bunch. Everybody has to look within the mirror. We will’t let the season finish like this.”
