Curtis Jones Calls For Calm Amid Liverpool’s Defeats

Curtis Jones has urged Liverpool to support calm and transportation connected arsenic Arne Slot’s broadside look to retrieve from back-to-back defeats successful Saturday’s “huge game” astatine Chelsea.

The Premier League champions had made a storming commencement to the season, having won 7 consecutive matches pursuing their punishment shoot-out nonaccomplishment to Crystal Palace successful the Community Shield.

But things person gone awry successful caller days for the Reds, whose 100% commencement to their rubric defence ended with Saturday’s last-gasp 2-1 nonaccomplishment distant to Oliver Glasner’s Eagles.

That Selhurst Park setback was compounded connected an ear-splitting evening successful Istanbul arsenic Liverpool’s archetypal Champions League travel of the play ended successful a 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Galatasaray.

Skipper Virgil van Dijk said “there shouldn’t beryllium panic” aft their 2nd consecutive nonaccomplishment but stressed the request for betterment – sentiments echoed by midfielder Jones.

“It’s conscionable portion of the game,” the homegrown prima said. “I accidental it each the time, you indispensable beryllium huffy if you deliberation you tin triumph each game.

“You’d evidently similar to, but the world is these teams you play are world-class teams and it’s mean if you lose. It’s conscionable however you bounce back.

“We’ve got a immense crippled again successful 3 days, the lads person to enactment calm.

“It’s portion of it, it’s not good that we suffer but we conscionable person to enactment calm and it volition each change. It volition each change, of people it will.”

Victor Osimhen’s first-half spot-kick proved the quality against the sloppy Reds, who looked overawed astatine times connected a hostile evening astatine rocking Rams Park.

The VAR’s involution ended up with a precocious punishment won by Ibrahima Konaté being overturned but adjacent if Liverpool had converted it would not person papered implicit a mediocre performance.

“If you look near and right, there’s world-class lads each around,” Jones told LFCTV. “But it’s not each astir that, it’s astir lads who privation to spell and win.