Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he wants his players to improve their levels of “passion and effort” after failing to win their opening three Premier League games.
The Merseyside club drew their first two games against Fulham and Crystal Palace before slipping to a 2-1 defeat against fierce rivals Manchester United on Monday.
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Liverpool welcome newly promoted Bournemouth to Anfield on Saturday and Klopp has urged his team to raise their game for the upcoming matches.
“We have to improve immediately,” he told a news conference on Friday. “We need 100% effort if not a little bit more, plus passion. It’s the highest level football. It’s all fine.
“The things we achieved were never easy, so no-one should expect it should be easy now. Let’s go for it together.”
He added: “My job is to put things right, I could learn a lot from life when things didn’t go well. It’s part of the job, to regroup, to find a perfect way together again to fight the outside world and not suffer.
