Virgil admits there's no hiding place for players on a run of four defeats

VIRGIL VAN DIJK admits Liverpool have no hiding place after a run of four straight defeats but says the squad cannot allow themselves to wallow in what is now the worst run for 11 years.

- By PAUL GORST

A 2-1 defeat to Manchester United on Sunday afternoon condemned Arne Slot and his Premier League champions to a fourth successive reverse following losses at Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and Chelsea before the international break.

Liverpool have not been on a run as bad since November 2014 under Brendan Rodgers and a fifth defeat in a row, at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday night, could equal an unwanted record that was set in the 1950s.

Van Dijk accepts the players must stand up and muster a response in Germany this week but says they cannot let a woeful patch impact them too much when the Champions League returns.

"We will analyse everything that happened but I've mentioned it many times, the focus now is on the Champions League," Van Dijk said.

"We play again in a couple of days, so you have to do everything in your power to be physically recovered and especially when you lose four games on the bounce you have recover mentally as well.

"Everyone is doing it in their spare time in their own way but we have that responsibility.

"You can't hide, you have to keep going. You have to get a win and Wednesday is another opportunity.

"I think everyone here today (at Anfield) maybe felt a bit like that (anxious).