Dominik Szoboszlai urged his teammates to ‘wake up’ after Liverpool conceded a last minute equaliser against Tottenham and squandered two points in the race for Champions League qualification.
The Hungary international looked likely to condemn Spurs to an eighth straight defeat when he opened the scoring with a first half free kick that Guglielmo Vicario should have saved.
Liverpool failed to build on that advantage, however, and Igor Tudor’s relegation threatened side were well worth the point they eventually earned when Richarlison scrambled home a late leveller.
Arne Slot’s outgoing Premier League champions are still well in the hunt for a top four place but with games running out they simply cannot afford to be so charitable.
The swagger and high-octane football that were hallmarks of last season’s team that swept to the title appear to have been lost and Szoboszlai struggled to explain another display that Sky Sports’ pundit Jamie Carragher called ‘a disaster’.
‘That is a huge disappointment,’ said the Liverpool midfielder who was deployed at right-back by Arne Slot.
‘I don’t know what happened, I have nothing to say. In the last minute, again, I don’t know how many times this season already. We have to wake up.
‘I feel flat. We have to wake up because if we carry on like this, we should be happy with the Conference League. I don’t know why this is happening, I honestly don’t know.
‘I think in the first-half we played very well, we controlled the whole game and they hardly created chances apart from one or two headers. Second half we just didn’t so the same things.
‘We will sit down together, and this is the most difficult time, but we have to stick together.’
Liverpool were booed off at the end of the game by a section of the Anfield faithful and Szoboszlai admitted he understood their frustations.
He said: ‘I didn’t hear the boos, but we can understand them. We are not performing how we should.
‘They should stand behind us because last season we became Champions four games before the end everybody was happy. Support us in a difficult time.”
‘There is still time to show how much we want it, we have to stick together and fight for the club.’
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