{"id":261423,"date":"2025-09-28T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:58:10","slug":"liverpools-van-dijk-demands-quick-improvement-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261423\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Van Dijk demands &#8216;quick&#8217; improvement after loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759067890_13_lindop_beth.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Beth LindopSep 28, 2025, 08:02 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN&#8217;s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> captain <a data-player-guid=\"c350cf83-87c2-aedd-b25b-7e9f3f3fa4dd\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/157892\/virgil-van-dijk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virgil van Dijk<\/a> has urged his team to &#8220;stay calm&#8221; after their 2-1 defeat to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e8703d92-a160-9bbf-cb81-1be6f3fd7969\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace<\/a>, but admits they will have to improve &#8220;pretty quickly&#8221; if they want to succeed this season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> champions suffered their first defeat of the campaign at Selhurst Park thanks to a late strike from Palace substitute <a data-player-guid=\"ad06de23-acf7-ceb6-e2d9-7907464206c7\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/259486\/eddie-nketiah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Nketiah<\/a>. The result means title rivals <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> can close the gap on the league leaders to just two points with a victory against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec6b4352-98d3-424d-6214-778d79b47a01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We&#8217;re] disappointed in our performance,&#8221; Van Dijk said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disappointed in the loss, but especially the way we went about it. I think if we got a draw here then we took already one point too much. That is the feeling that we have right now. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is any reason to worry, but we have to improve pretty quickly because obviously we play [against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b23d52e-b1ae-2e88-5263-936f59c03912\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galatasaray<\/a> in the Champions League] in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e83058ba-378d-6837-d3f9-293eca20f889\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>We have a very difficult game there as well, so we have to be ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Virgil van Dijk demanded improvement after Liverpool were again involved in a dramatic late finish, this time ending in defeat.\u00a0Liverpool FC\/Liverpool FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Having become the masters of scoring late goals this season, Liverpool thought they had managed to snatch a precious point against Palace when <a data-player-guid=\"05962706-324f-0308-d000-3d59721419fe\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/234306\/federico-chiesa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federico Chiesa<\/a> came off the bench to draw his team level in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n<p>However, Oliver Glasner&#8217;s side could have put the game out of sight in the first half alone, with <a data-player-guid=\"9d210b21-9daf-b76a-0d85-235471ad36a0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/196876\/alisson-becker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alisson Becker<\/a> making a succession of fine saves after Ismalia Sarr had opened the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the basics that we didn&#8217;t do well,&#8221; Van Dijk said of his team&#8217;s first-half display. &#8220;Sometimes you can have these days. Hopefully, this is the only day this season that we do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a reason they were 17, now 18, games unbeaten. They are very difficult to break down, very disciplined, they defend deep and they don&#8217;t mind that, and they have the quality on the break to hurt you.But it started all with ourselves. We were sloppy in possession, didn&#8217;t win our second ball fight, and we created momentum for them. They could have been three or four up by half-time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are lucky that we have, in my opinion, the best goalkeeper in the world to save us. If we had a draw, we had one point too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Transfer rumours: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46406681\/transfer-rumors-news-liverpool-man-united-jarrad-branthwaite-everton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liverpool to rival Man United for Branthwaite<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; Lindop: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46398905\/liverpool-crystal-palace-dramatic-late-goal-premier-league-beth-lindop-marc-guehi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liverpool need to learn after latest dramatic late finish<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46399160\/arne-slot-liverpool-only-blame-first-defeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Slot: Liverpool &#8216;deserved&#8217; first loss of the season<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool defender added: &#8220;There are loads of challenges throughout the whole season. Everyone has to deal with it in their own way, but obviously as a team we have to deal with it as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest challenge now is to stay calm. I mentioned it many times: never get too high or too low. Just work and don&#8217;t listen to the outside world too much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know when you can do better and today everyone knew that. We have another opportunity on Tuesday in a very interesting stadium, big crowd, Champions League, to turn it around again and focus on the next one and next one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth LindopSep 28, 2025, 08:02 AM ET Close Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN&#8217;s Liverpool correspondent and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-261423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115282280776584650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}