Liverpool haven’t given up hope of retaining their Premier League crown, so says Virgil van Dijk.
The Reds have been overwhelmed 3-0 by Manchester Metropolis on Sunday, leaving Arne Slot’s crew eighth within the desk heading into the worldwide break.
Liverpool have now misplaced 4 consecutive Premier League away video games for the primary time since April 2012 below Kenny Dalglish (4).
These 4 defeats in succession at the moment are greater than the Reds suffered of their first 21 away league video games below Slot mixed (W13 D5 L3).
Liverpool are eight factors adrift of leaders Arsenal, and in keeping with the Opta supercomputer, their possibilities of profitable the title have now dropped to 7%, however Van Dijk insisted they won’t surrender within the title battle.
“The fact is that we misplaced 3-0 and that may be a huge blow,” stated Van Dijk.
“We’re not going to surrender in anyway. We’re in November and we’re prepared for an extended season and an enormous battle.”
Having missed an early penalty, Erling Haaland opened the scoring earlier than Nico Gonzalez made it 2-0 with a strike that took a deflection off Van Dijk.
Liverpool trailed by 2+ objectives at half-time of a Premier League recreation below Slot for simply the second time (beforehand v Fulham in April), whereas it was the primary time that they had trailed by 3+ objectives at any level in a league match because the Dutchman took cost.
Jeremy Doku’s stunner went on to take the sport away from Liverpool within the second half, although issues might need been totally different had a Van Dijk aim within the first half been allowed to face.
Van Dijk thought he had made it 1-1 when he headed in from Mohamed Salah’s nook, just for it to be disallowed resulting from Andy Robertson standing in an offside place in entrance of Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Nevertheless, Wayne Rooney, who has been concerned in a disagreement with Van Dijk in current weeks, feels it was the unsuitable choice to disallow the aim.
“I don’t assume it has affected all of it [Robertson impacting Donnarumma], once you have a look at it,” Manchester United’s file goalscorer Rooney stated on BBC Sport’s Match of the Day.
“Robertson is in an offside place however Van Dijk, good motion, actually good header and Donnarumma can see the ball, we all know he can see the ball the entire approach and Robertson is to the aspect of him.
“Donnarumma is outstretched, he has a full dive, there’s no have an effect on from Robertson on that aim for me.”
