Virgil van Dijk points finger at Liverpool players in alarming admission

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It’s mentally very tough at the moment, I must say."I've been lucky enough to play for Liverpool for so many years and the main thing always was the togetherness."Now, obviously, we are in a little bit of a transition so we have to find it. That is difficult."Van Dijk added: "I am trying to think how we can turn it around but we have been going through this for almost 75% of the season."Where we do well but we can’t build on certain things and we fall back into games where we get beat on intensity or beat on how much you really want to go for it.

I am speaking for myself but it is mentally tough at the moment to take this."We already spoke about it in the dressing room but it’s on us. Mentally it has been a very tough season overall."But we have a responsibility, not only to ourselves but especially to the fans and, if we want to make something out of this season, we have to try and do something special in the next three games."The defeat has further ramped up the pressure on beleaguered boss Slot, with Liverpool also facing a major battle to secure even a Champions League berth for next season having taken only one point from nine in the Premier League to stand in fifth place.And asked if the players are doing enough for the head coach, Van Dijk said: "Well, it's a together thing, isn't it?

Obviously, he's responsible as the manager, but we are the ones on the pitch that have to do it."I've been repeating myself too many times. We let ourselves down and the manager, but we let our fans down.