The Premier League champions suffered their fourth successive loss in all competitions on Sunday as they were beaten 2-1 by arch-rivals Manchester United at Anfield.<\/p>\n
After the game Van Dijk said it was important the team stayed calm, but Keane, the former United skipper, feels the Dutch defender needs to take a look at himself.<\/p>\n
The Irishman, working as a pundit for Sky Sports, said: \u201cLiverpool did look edgy. They do look like they\u2019re forcing things. They do look like the balance, the chemistry, is not quite there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re the centre-half and you\u2019re a big player, and last year we were on about who\u2019s going to stay and he signs the big contract, and then you\u2019re giving up loads of goals, then I\u2019d be looking at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be looking (and thinking), \u2018What are you doing?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a couple of years ago he spoke about Man United coming here and parking the bus and being critical of United.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, they\u2019ve scored two today, they scored two last year, and you\u2019re the centre-half of this team. Always start with the man in the mirror, because he\u2019s a big leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re the centre-half and your team are all of a sudden giving up loads of goals, you\u2019ve got new people coming to your club, you\u2019ve got to have a good look at yourself, (and say) \u2018Am I really helping these lads? Am I getting a grip of people?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cLittle incidents we saw with the (first) goal there \u2013 yes, we\u2019ll give United plaudits \u2013 but I do look at him going, \u2018Are you really sprinting back?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cUnited\u2019s attacking players, certainly, had a bit of a swagger about them, whereas Liverpool, they struggled to deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Dijk failed to get back to cut out Bryan Mbeumo\u2019s first-minute opener for United after clashing with team-mate Alexis Mac Allister.<\/p>\n
Cody Gakpo, who hit a post three times, equalised for the hosts 12 minutes from time, but Harry Maguire grabbed a winner in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n
Van Dijk told Sky Sports: \u201cWe conceded a very sloppy second goal. We worked so hard to get back into the game, we created opportunities to score the winner, but if you concede the second goal like that, obviously, that\u2019s the disappointing part.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, if you look at the game, we were far too rushed. I think we were making wrong decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting time now. We have to stick together, not only us as players, but together with our fans and everyone that wants us to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about staying very calm. When things get tough, it\u2019s important that we keep that same mentality of being there for each other. It\u2019s still a long season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Premier League champions suffered their fourth successive loss in all competitions on Sunday as they were beaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,1534,20,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-133102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-football-club","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}