Liverpool: Skipper Virgil van Dijk believes Arne Slots’ side have not lost their Premier League form

Captain Virgil Van Dijk dismissed any fears Liverpool have stumbled of their title bid.

Diogo Jota’s equaliser, simply 22 seconds after the substitute got here on, earned a degree at Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.

Arne Slot’s aspect have received three of their final seven Premier League video games however nonetheless have a six-point lead over second positioned Forest earlier than Arsenal play Tottenham on Wednesday evening.

Additionally they misplaced their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg to Tottenham 1-0 final week.

“Ooh, so we’re in a disaster now?” joked Netherlands worldwide Van Dijk, when Liverpool’s kind was put to him.

“It solely confirms the Premier League is a really robust league the place you play towards opponents who’re excellent.

“It was all the time going to be robust, identical with [Manchester] United at residence with their new supervisor and the sport plan they’ve been exhibiting particularly towards the larger groups.

“Each sport is hard, we’ve to discover a solution to win and I feel if we play like we did within the second half and preserve preventing, preserve making an attempt, preserve discovering alternatives then I’m very assured we are going to rating targets as nicely like we’ve been doing all season.”

The leaders have come from behind 5 occasions of their final seven league video games, together with of their 2-2 draw with United, with Van Dijk praising their character.

The 33-year-old added: “It exhibits resilience, nobody desires to return from behind, we’ve to maintain engaged on that and have everybody in the very best form to stop that. All we will do is attempt to do it within the subsequent sport higher.”

Van Dijk felt it was two factors dropped on the Metropolis Floor, having conceded Chris Wooden’s early opener.

The guests dominated the second half with Matz Sels twice denying Jota, whereas Ola Aina blocked Mohamed Salah’s late effort on the road.

“We should always have received, might have received, however the actuality is we take a degree at a troublesome floor,” stated Van Dijk.

“We created many probabilities and we might have received the sport towards a crew that does not concede many probabilities, they’d saved clear sheets within the final 4 video games so that claims rather a lot.

“I feel we might have scored not less than a few targets.”