{"id":693777,"date":"2026-01-13T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:33:14","slug":"we-know-we-need-to-still-lift-our-levels-of-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693777\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We know we need to still lift our levels of performance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds extended their current streak without defeat by beating League One outfit Barnsley at Anfield in the Emirates FA Cup on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Six wins, five draws and five clean sheets have been registered amid that form, though Robertson stressed the quality of overall displays has to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes and no,&#8221; the vice-captain replied when asked about feeling the positives of going unbeaten, speaking to reporters after the victory against Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some of the performances still have to be better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within that obviously you&#8217;ve got [moments where] you throw it away, you&#8217;ve got a draw against Leeds at home, a draw against Sunderland at home &#8211; games that you are probably expected to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But within that as well you&#8217;ve obviously got a draw at the Emirates, you&#8217;ve got a win at the San Siro &#8211; games that weren&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I think yes and no. Obviously 11 unbeaten is good, we kind of stopped the bad form, which is always pleasing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we need to still lift our levels of performance, I think everyone knows that and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re working towards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emphatic efforts from Dominik Szoboszlai and Jeremie Frimpong put Arne Slot&#8217;s men in front during the first half versus Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>An error by Szoboszlai gifted Adam Phillips a response for the visitors ahead of half-time, but substitutes Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike scored late on to book a fourth-round home clash with Brighton &amp; Hove Albion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds extended their current streak without defeat by beating League One outfit Barnsley at Anfield in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-693777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115889465345492999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693777","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=693777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}