Virgil van Dijk has pressured the significance of Liverpool trying on the “larger image” this season, fairly 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 prime of the Premier League to 4 factors, so there may be stress on Liverpool to win at dwelling 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 disenchanted, after all, with the way in which the Everton recreation completed on Wednesday,” the captain admitted.
“To be so near an enormous win, having labored so arduous to place ourselves in that place, after which to concede such a late equaliser is clearly very irritating and I believe you would 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 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 outcome, we simply need to preserve going, preserve exhibiting the issues we’ve got proven up to now this season and preserve shifting forwards.”
Whereas the Everton recreation clearly damage, 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’ fingers.
Wolves will pose a risk – they gained 2-0 at dwelling 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 robust journeys to Villa and Man Metropolis to return within the subsequent week, it could be a nasty time for it to occur.
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