Robertson makes frank Liverpool admission saying that his side face a ‘huge uphill battle’ to retain title.
Andrew Robertson admits Liverpool face ‘huge uphill battle’ to retain title.
After Sunday’s 3-0 loss at Manchester City, which dropped Arne Slot’s club to seventh place, Andrew Robertson acknowledges that Liverpool has a “huge uphill battle” to defend the crown.
After 11 games, Liverpool was eight points behind the leaders, Arsenal, following their fifth defeat in six league games.
Robertson said: “Obviously, we’ve given ourselves a huge uphill battle, but I don’t think any of the teams will really look at the league table until we’re halfway through. That’s what we’ve got to do but we’ve got to pick up points on a more consistent basis. Then let’s see where we are after Christmas time or whatever. We’ve just got to focus on ourselves and focus on performance levels
“I don’t think you can talk about the title this early on in the season, regardless of what position you’re in, but you need to then consistently start winning games again for that to even come into question. It’s definitely not a question that’s getting spoken about in the changing room or anything.
“We just need to get back to the levels that we know we can, the levels that we brought the last two games in particular. If we do that on a more regular basis, then we pick up more points than we won’t.”
Robertson admitted Liverpool “would have probably been fortunate to be on level terms” but said: “We think it’s an OK goal. I can’t really comment on it; I think we’ll let other people do that. But for me, it looks as if I duck out the way – I don’t think the keeper is in any eyeline to me. That’s the rules we got told at the start of the season, so it was a little bit of a difficult one.”
The defeat followed wins over Aston Villa and Real Madrid. Robertson said: “We wanted to end a really strong week but it wasn’t meant to be. We were making strides and then obviously getting a knock [at City]”