"You look at yourself first and then you help each other, you help each other get out of this mess because at the moment it is a mess -- that's just a fact. As the champions we can't be in the situation we are in right now. What are we going to do about it? We're going to try to turn it around and that's the mentality everyone should have."
"What I want is for everyone to take responsibility on the pitch. We have to do that in order to push each other, to make each other better. It's easy to maybe just think about your own situation rather than the collective side when things are not going well. We have been through it together and won the league and everyone was part of it and happy and when you go through a tough time you have to stick together and not point fingers."
Liverpool suffered a 3-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest, their sixth loss in seven league matches, leaving the defending champions 11th and in the bottom half for the first time in over a decade. Captain Virgil van Dijk described the situation as a mess and called on players to take responsibility and stop blaming each other. He urged collective accountability, pushing teammates to improve and supporting head coach Arne Slot. Van Dijk acknowledged anger in the dressing room but emphasized unity, toughness and repeated effort across a congested schedule of seven matches in 22 days to turn results around.
Read at ESPN.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]