Curtis Jones has said Liverpool must improve on the basics, namely showing a will to win, in order to correct their unconvincing run of form, and believes they have enough world-class talent to ensure their problems will not deepen.<\/p>\n
Liverpool visit Chelsea on Saturday looking to recover from two consecutive defeats, against Galatasaray in the Champions League<\/a> and, before that, Crystal Palace in the Premier League<\/a>. It is only the second time that Arne Slot has suffered back-to-back losses as head coach.<\/p>\n The champions produced another disjointed display in Istanbul<\/a> where, despite dominating possession, the visitors rarely troubled Galatasaray\u2019s goalkeeper, Ugurcan Cakir. Jones echoed Virgil van Dijk\u2019s insistence that Liverpool have no reason to panic, but admitted Slot\u2019s side must do more at all times to arrest their recent slide.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look left and right, there\u2019s world-class lads all around,\u201d the midfielder said. \u201cBut it is not all about that, it\u2019s about lads who want to go and win. It\u2019s OK if you\u2019re nice on the ball and stuff like that but you have to go and win, work hard and run more. The lads know that, of course they do, but you have games like this and it won\u2019t be the last as well. We would be mad to think we can turn up and just win these games. It\u2019s about how much we want to win.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course we\u2019re upset, but there are positives to take and there is a game again in three days and we have to go again.\u201d<\/p>\n Liverpool will be without Alisson at Stamford Bridge after he was forced off injured in Turkey. Hugo Ekitike was also withdrawn but could be involved on Saturday if his injury turns out to have been cramp.<\/p>\n Alisson was forced to make an early exit in Istanbul. Photograph: \u00dcmit Bekta\u015f\/Reuters<\/p>\n Jones admits the Chelsea game has assumed huge importance to Liverpool and an improvement on the Galatasaray performance is essential. \u201cIt is the Champions League and it is always going to be a hard game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s [Galatasaray\u2019s] biggest game of the year, I\u2019d say, and I think it showed with the fans and how the players played as well. If you look at their first game, they get beat [5-1 by Eintracht Frankfurt], and if you look at it tonight, it didn\u2019t even look like we could have scored.<\/p>\n \u201cWe played out loads, it was positive at times when they came and pressed. Me, Ryan [Gravenberch] and Flo [Florian Wirtz] played through and went but we\u2019d like more shots and obviously more goals.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just part of the game. You must be mad if you think you can win every game. You\u2019d obviously like to but the reality is these teams you play are world-class and it\u2019s normal if you lose, it\u2019s just how you bounce back. We\u2019ve got a huge game again in three days, the lads have to stay calm. It\u2019s not fine that we lose but we just have to stay calm and it will all change, of course it will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curtis Jones has said Liverpool must improve on the basics, namely showing a will to win, in order…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-466045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115299542871325327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}