Andrew Robertson Admits Liverpool Face ‘huge Uphill Battle’ To Retain Title

Andrew Robertson admits Liverpool person a “huge uphill battle” to take sides nan title aft Sunday’s 3-0 conclusion astatine Manchester City, which leaves Arne Slot’s squad eighth.

The reverse was a 5th successful six convention matches, pinch Liverpool 8 points down nan leaders, Arsenal, aft 11 matches. Robertson said: “Obviously, we’ve fixed ourselves a immense uphill battle, but I don’t deliberation immoderate of nan teams will really look astatine nan convention array until we’re halfway through. That’s what we’ve sewage to do but we’ve sewage to prime up points connected a much accordant basis. Then let’s spot wherever we are aft Christmas clip aliases whatever. We’ve conscionable sewage to attraction connected ourselves and attraction connected capacity levels.

“I don’t deliberation you tin talk astir nan title this early connected successful nan season, sloppy of what position you’re in, but you request to past consistently commencement winning games again for that to moreover travel into question. It’s decidedly not a mobility that’s getting spoken astir successful nan changing room aliases anything.

“We conscionable request to get backmost to nan levels that we cognize we can, nan levels that we brought nan past 2 games successful particular. If we do that connected a much regular basis, past we prime up much points than we won’t.”

Liverpool were trailing 1-0 erstwhile Virgil van Dijk’s header was ruled retired aft Robertson, opinionated successful an offside position, was adjudged to person interfered pinch play.

Robertson admitted Liverpool “would person astir apt been fortunate to beryllium connected level terms” but said: “We deliberation it’s an OK goal. I can’t really remark connected it; I deliberation we’ll fto different group do that. But for me, it looks arsenic if I duck retired nan measurement – I don’t deliberation nan keeper is successful immoderate eyeline to me. That’s nan rules we sewage told astatine nan commencement of nan season, truthful it was a small spot of a difficult one.”

The conclusion followed wins complete Aston Villa and Real Madrid. Robertson said: “We wanted to extremity a really beardown week but it wasn’t meant to be. We were making strides and past evidently getting a sound [at City]”