Liverpool midfielder Gini Wijnaldum has opened up about the side’s terrible run of recent form in the Premier League.
Defeat by Chelsea on Thursday means Liverpool have lost five successive home league games for the first time in the club’s history.
Having gone 68 matches without defeat at Anfield in the Premier League - a run stretching back to April 2017 - the Reds have since lost to Burnley, Brighton, Manchester City, Everton and Chelsea in a row.
Jurgen Klopp’s side have taken just three points from the last 18 available in the top-flight and are seventh in the league, four points off the Champions League places, ahead of Sunday’s game against Fulham.
The Reds have managed to score just one goal in six home games in 2021 - a Mohamed Salah penalty in the 4-1 defeat by Man City last month - while struggling to keep clean sheets at the other end.
Wijnaldum says the recent performances have been unacceptable, but believes his team-mates have got what it takes to turn things around.
“We were hurting a lot. We shouldn’t get used to losing games,” he told Football Daily.
“I think we can do better than what we are showing right now and, of course, we have to deal with difficult situations during this season.
“Injuries, decisions in the game that don’t go work in our favour. But in some situations in the game, I think we can do much better.”
As well as long-term absentees Virgil van Dijk, Joel Matip and Joe Gomez, Liverpool are also currently without captain Jordan Henderson, while Ozan Kabak, Nat Phillips and Caoimhin Kelleher are all doubts for tomorrow’s game at Anfield.
Klopp believes that the lack of fans inside Anfield has played a part in Liverpool’s run of home defeats.
"It's easy to believe when it is going well but in this moment, how I said, I cannot really tell the people at the moment what they should think," he said.
"At that time when I said [turning doubters into believers], it was not my decision if the people wanted to follow it or not.
"If you want to doubt [the coaching staff] and not the team, if you want to doubt me in this moment, then I think that is possible because of the results we got.
"In my understanding, if you are really with us, you judge our situation right and you see that this is a really difficult year where unity could be shown in an even more special kind.
"And I am pretty sure that if our stadium was full at the moment the majority of people would like the game and when we lose then the next game they would be there, full of belief, full of positivity and full of optimism because they know these boys didn't change, the situation changed, dramatically.”
