Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson struggled to clarify the “mistakes” which littered his facet’s chastening 3-0 Premier League defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday afternoon.
Despite having fun with a formidable particular person marketing campaign, Alisson has conceded extra objectives in 20 Premier League video games this season (28) than he shipped throughout 36 top-flight outings final time period (24).
In their third assembly with Wolves in 28 days, Liverpool shipped two objectives within the opening 12 minutes. Joel Matip inadvertently diverted the ball into his personal internet earlier than Craig Dawson, on his debut for Wolves, capitalised upon a bout of pinball at a set piece to blast the ball past Alisson,
“Sometimes in football you make mistakes and you get punished,” Liverpool’s goalkeeper lamented after the match. “We did that again and again. Two mistakes, two goals at the beginning of the game. We are making things hard for ourselves.”
Liverpool improved after the interval – outshooting Wolves 14 to 5 within the second half – however failed to discover the online earlier than Ruben Neves netted a 3rd for the hosts on the finish of a swift counterattack.
Alisson continued: “After that, we did a great second half. We could have done better on the third goal but it is a good moment from the opponent.
“I do not know what we want to occur to us to get up. We come right here, say we now have to imagine in ourselves however we do not act like that on the pitch or deserve that. Again, we now have to put this behind us and take energy from ourselves and [our] households to bounce again.”
Jurgen Klopp struggled to explain his side’s poor start and Alisson was left looking for answers himself: “I believe everybody believes they’re able to doing this stuff it’s that you’ve to struggle for that. A sport of 90-plus minutes you will have to do it persistently for the entire sport. We confirmed immediately you will get punished for quarter-hour and that is what occurred to us. We have the identical gamers who achieved so many nice issues at this membership and we aren’t performing nicely. It’s tough to say why.
“I’m not saying I don’t trust we can’t bounce back. I’m just so disappointed about tonight’s game. We have to keep working.”
Liverpool slumped to a 3rd consecutive away defeat for the primary time since 2012, leaving Alisson exasperated post-game: “Same as the other games, we have no consistency at all through the 90 minutes, focused and doing what we have to do on the pitch fighting. First 15 minutes we started the game not in a good way and we got punished for that. Conceding two goals, we are not in a good situation. They are confident, we tried, did a good second half but conceded again. Completely frustrated.
“Looks like within the sport we went two steps behind then we make one step ahead, we want to do extra steps due to the outcomes. Step ahead was the second-half efficiency, two utterly totally different sides first and second half. We have to take that for the subsequent sport and utilizing the possibilities we now have and cease conceding the foolish objectives.”
With a Merseyside derby and a Champions League tie against Real Madrid on the horizon, Alisson concluded: “We have to consider the subsequent video games. We will not be ready to assume an excessive amount of concerning the finish of the season. We have to take into consideration what we are able to do now and win the subsequent sport in entrance of us and that is it.”
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