Virgil van Dijk has claimed Liverpool were “too rash” in the second half in their defeat to West Ham.
The Reds’ unbeaten start to the Premier League season came to an end with a 3-2 defeat to the Hammers at the London Stadium on Sunday evening.
Goals from Trent Alexander-Arnold and substitute Divock Origi proved to be merely consolations for Liverpool in the capital.
It all started with an own goal from Alisson Becker courtesy of a Pablo Fornals corner, before the Spaniard scored West Ham’s second soon after the hour mark.
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Kurt Zouma scored from a corner to add further problems to Liverpool’s defence, and Van Dijk has remarked on the Reds’ approach as a reason for the defeat.
Alexander-Arnold’s free-kick saw Liverpool go into half-time level, but Van Dijk says that the Reds’ eagerness to score a second goal was their downfall.
“It’s a proper knock,” Van Dijk told Sky Sports. “We have to pick ourselves up and make sure we are ready after the international break.
“It was an intense game, I think first half there was nothing really wrong. We played OK, I think in moments played well.
“We tried to find the spaces in between their lines and obviously they defended well.
“We had to be patient and scored the deserved equaliser, in my opinion, then second half we were a bit too rash maybe.
“We wanted maybe to score the 2-1 a bit too much.
“Obviously they gambled on the counter-attacks with leaving players up, that’s obviously a strength of theirs and then it was quite an open game.”
