Virgil van Dijk has harassed the significance of Liverpool wanting on the “greater image” this season, fairly than the tip 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 prime 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 had been additionally disillusioned, after all, with the way in which the Everton recreation completed on Wednesday,” the captain admitted.
“To be so near a giant 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 feel you can see that at full-time.
“We wished the three factors, so it was a troublesome one to take on the time.
“However now the mud has settled, we additionally want to take a look at the larger image. We’re in an excellent place and there are numerous video games to play within the upcoming weeks.
“There isn’t any want for us to dwell an excessive amount of on one end result, we simply must hold going, hold exhibiting the issues we’ve proven up to now this season and hold shifting forwards.”
Whereas the Everton recreation clearly damage, Liverpool can’t 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’ fingers.
Wolves will pose a risk – they received 2-0 at house to Aston Villa of their final league recreation – 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 facet have suffered a dent of their confidence.
With robust journeys to Villa and Man Metropolis to come back within the subsequent week, it might be a nasty time for it to occur.
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