Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk says he and his team-mates are letting manager Arne Slot down – but backs the beleaguered champions to get out of what he calls a ‘mess’.
The Reds lost 3-0 on Saturday to Nottingham Forest in another bruising defeat, their eighth in 11 games to take them into the bottom half of the table as their Premier League title defence falls apart week by week.
Some fans booed at full-time and Van Dijk said: ‘We are definitely letting him (Slot) down but we've let ourselves down as well.