2026-03-04 11:51:31
Virgil van Dijk bemoaned Liverpool’s “sloppy” performance in the defeat to Wolves.
The Reds’ hopes of Champions League qualification took a hit as they crashed to a 2-1 defeat against the Premier League’s bottom club on Tuesday (03.03.26) and the captain said that the team must accept culpability for such a mediocre display.
Van Dijk told TNT Sports: “I think it’s down to ourselves. It was slow, we were predictable, sloppy in possession and wrong decision-making.
“We didn’t concede chances but if you perform like that then a result like this can be a result of that and that’s a fact. It was disappointing.”
Van Dijk lamented Liverpool’s dismal first-half performance that saw them fail to create any opportunity of note.
Asked to explain the slow start, the defender said: “It’s not one reason why that’s the case. The game nowadays we over-analyse why things are happening on the pitch.
“We as a team want to start a game as well as we can and in the last game we did, today we had majority possession but we were still making wrong decisions and we couldn’t find the end product.”
Liverpool coach Arne Slot expressed frustration after his team lost yet another match after conceding in injury-time, the fifth time this has happened to the Premier League champions this season.
He said: “We hardly conceded a chance, created not so much but more than they did, but the result is again a 2-1 loss.
“We are losing far too many football games and dropping points. Was it again in extra-time that we conceded? The three times we lost in the last 22 games were all three in extra time.”
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