Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish and striker Luis Suarez have urged everyone at the club to stick together and battle through their current slump.
Liverpool boss tells players to keep working hard
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish and striker Luis Suarez have urged everyone at the club to stick together and battle through their current slump.
The Reds crashed to a sixth defeat in seven Premier League games at Newcastle on Sunday to remain a disappointing eighth in the table, a place below neighbours Everton.
Despite winning the Carling Cup and having an FA Cup semi-final to come, Dalglish is coming under mounting pressure to arrest a decline that has left his side 16 points off the UEFA Champions League positions.
Dalglish was praised for restoring harmony at Anfield after taking over from Roy Hodgson last year and he is convinced the club have the spirit to revive their flagging fortunes.
The Scot said: "I just think we have got to stick together.
"They (the players) will stick together because they want to get it right, and the best way to do it is to stick together and believe in what they are doing.
"It's not as if they don't work hard, it's not as if they don't have the determination and effort to put it right.
"It's up to us to harness the frustration and disappointment properly, work on it and take it as a positive because if they start to enjoy losing games, we'd have a problem."
Difficult moments
Suarez has also vowed to fight on to get the club moving back in the right direction.
Liverpool's poor league run actually stretches back to the turn of the year, since when they have collected just eight points in 12 games.
Suarez tweeted: "Difficult moments after the last matches.... We must continue to work until the end! YNWA."
The latest defeat was particularly frustrating as Pepe Reina was sent off for violent conduct and Andy Carroll endured a frustrating return to Newcastle, being booked for diving before reacting angrily to being substituted.
Liverpool had looked the better side before Newcastle opened the scoring and Dalglish was again left to bemoan what might have been.
Dalglish said: "Some of the football we played in the first half was good and exciting and with maybe a bit more luck and/or composure, then we could have been in front.
"The goal we lost, we can learn from, the first one.
"There were lots of times when we created openings, but we have got to take them and we have got to believe in ourselves and believe in what we are doing.
"If we do that, then we will have a better opportunity."
