Virgil van Dijk has careworn the significance of Liverpool wanting on the “greater image” this season, slightly than the top to their 2-2 draw at Everton.
The Reds threw away two factors within the dying seconds on Wednesday evening, with James Tarkowski’s equaliser a sickener for Arne Slot, his gamers and followers alike.
Arsenal‘s 2-0 victory at Leicester on Saturday has narrowed the hole on the high of the Premier League to 4 factors, so there may be strain on Liverpool to win at house to Wolves on Sunday (2pm kick off).
Talking within the new-look official matchday programme, Van Dijk mentioned how very important it’s for the Reds to bounce again after their midweek disappointment.
“We have been additionally disillusioned, in fact, with the way in which the Everton sport completed on Wednesday,” the captain admitted.
“To be so near an enormous win, having labored so onerous to place ourselves in that place, after which to concede such a late equaliser is clearly very irritating and I believe you can see that at full-time.
“We needed the three factors, so it was a troublesome one to take on the time.
“However now the mud has settled, we additionally want to have a look at the larger image. We’re in an excellent place and there are a number of video games to play within the upcoming weeks.
“There isn’t any want for us to dwell an excessive amount of on one outcome, we simply should maintain going, maintain exhibiting the issues we’ve got proven up to now this season and maintain transferring forwards.”
Whereas the Everton sport clearly harm, Liverpool can not really feel sorry for themselves, as an alternative producing a response this weekend.
A draw at Goodison Park was nonetheless no catastrophe, regardless of the character of how the sport panned out, and title future remains to be very a lot within the Reds’ palms.
Wolves will pose a menace – they gained 2-0 at house to Aston Villa of their final league sport – however Liverpool will rightly be agency favourites to go seven factors forward of Arsenal once more.
Failure to take action would really feel regarding, nevertheless, suggesting that Slot’s aspect have suffered a dent of their confidence.
With robust journeys to Villa and Man Metropolis to come back within the subsequent week, it could be a nasty time for it to occur.
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