Virgil van Dijk has harassed the significance of Liverpool wanting on the “greater image” this season, somewhat than the tip to their 2-2 draw at Everton.
The Reds threw away two factors within the dying seconds on Wednesday night time, 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 residence 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 disenchanted, after all, with the best way the Everton recreation completed on Wednesday,” the captain admitted.
“To be so near a giant win, having labored so exhausting to place ourselves in that place, after which to concede such a late equaliser is clearly very irritating and I feel you might 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 take a look at the larger image. We’re in an excellent place and there are lots of video games to play within the upcoming weeks.
“There is no such thing as a want for us to dwell an excessive amount of on one consequence, we simply should maintain going, maintain exhibiting the issues we now have proven up to now this season and maintain transferring forwards.”
Whereas the Everton recreation clearly harm, Liverpool can not really feel sorry for themselves, as a substitute 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 continues to be very a lot within the Reds’ fingers.
Wolves will pose a menace – they received 2-0 at residence 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, nonetheless, suggesting that Slot’s facet have suffered a dent of their confidence.
With powerful journeys to Villa and Man Metropolis to come back within the subsequent week, it could be a nasty time for it to occur.
You should purchase the new-look LFC official matchday programme right here.
