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“We’re in the sh*t” – Curtis Jones gives brutally honest verdict after Liverpool lose 4-1 to PSV

“We’re in the sh*t” – Curtis Jones gives a brutally honest verdict after Liverpool lose 4-1 to PSV in the Champions League.

It was a miserable night in Merseyside for the hosts, a Virgil van Dijk handball awarded PSV a penalty in the 6th minute which Ivan Perisic slotted home. 10 minutes later, Dominic Szoboszlai levelled with tap-in.

Guus Til restored the visitors’ lead on 56 minutes, with PSV substitute Couhaib Driouech scoring late double to stun Anfield. Liverpool fans were seen flooding out 10 minutes before the final whistle.

The result means Aren Slot’s side have now lost nine of their last 12 matches, dropped to 13th in the Champions League table and face pressure battling for a top-eight place.

Jones said to Irish broadcasters RTE: ‘I don’t have the answers. Honestly, I don’t. I’m saying that to everybody. It’s just unacceptable.

‘I don’t even have to wait to think about it. I’m past being angry inside. I’m at the point now where I just don’t have the words.

‘It’s hard because I’m playing for the team I support. I’m a fan, and I’ve seen this club all my life.

‘In a long, long time, I haven’t experienced a Liverpool team going through a period like this with results like these.

‘But at the end of the day, we still have that badge on our chest. And until that badge is gone, we’re always going to fight.

‘We’re going to try and get this team back to where it needs to be, show everyone again what this club is about and why people call it the best team in the world.

‘But right now, we’re in the s*** and it needs to change.’

Carragher said: ‘Curtis Jones is a passionate player, he’s hurting right now and given an interview that’s going to go everywhere.

‘I’d love to have seen Mo Salah speaking there, rather than Curtis Jones coming out.

‘When he says “we need put a tackle in, we need to get closer to the ball”… who’s stopping you? The only thing someone can’t stop you doing is running. No one can stop you tackling, running and pressing. Don’t tell us you’re not doing it, just do it.’

“[In the] last weeks, every time the same question. The emotions are very negative and disappointing,” Slot said.“I’ll have to be positive about the reaction of the players after we went 1-0 down because until half-time we played a very good game.

“After another disappointment, we came back into the game. We had enough chances to go 2-1 up. At half-time, I don’t think anyone would have expected us to lose this game 4-1.”

On whether his side had the chances to take a lead against PSV, Slot added: “We did, until half-time.

“After half-time, we conceded quite early for 2-1. Even after, we had good chances for 2-2, then 10-15 minutes before the end we conceded another goal. Yeah, hard to take.”

Slot again pointed towards his side’s first-half reaction to the opening goal as a positive, but explained the toll his side’s recent plight can have on their “mentality”.

“It isn’t always easy, but that’s why, after we concede the first one, I think we saw the reaction I want to see. It’s not easy because we had a big loss at the weekend,” Slot said.

“The mentality was as you were hoping it to be, but it’s not always so easy if you had so many disappointments. The end result was 4-1, and that’s another big loss.”

“I liked the way we reacted in transition a lot. We could keep them in their half almost all the time.

“There were parts of the second half we weren’t able to. I constantly felt what’s wrong with Hugo; it felt [like] he couldn’t move as he did in the first half. That’s why our press was a little bit off.

“He said he felt his back. Not that it’s only about him, but we couldn’t bring the same power in our pressing as we could in the first 45.

“The only way to go is to face what we are in. Fight really hard.

“It would be nice if we don’t get this knock every time we concede a goal. The feeling I have, and the players will have the same, is that after 45 minutes, you don’t expect to be 1-1.

“It’s hard but the reaction of the players, especially first half and after 2-1, is the reaction you expect of a Liverpool player.”

“We’re in the sh*t” – Curtis Jones gives a brutally honest verdict after Liverpool lose 4-1 to PSV, here’s how Twitter users reacted…

@CourellMatthew: What a boy, would run through a brick wall for this club and he’s the only one with the honesty and the decency to show his face after that.

@LewisJW96: Don’t wanna hear it. I don’t care if he’s passionate, do the talking on the pitch so you don’t have to be like this after a game. And as for Mo Salah – do an interview and stop being a shithouse.

@callumcrosby1: First player to come out and say it how it is

@DanielRoachLFC: Carra is spot on with that Curtis Jones interview – do it then. Tired of talk talk talk just like I’m tired of pass pass pass. Szobo is the only one with fire in his belly. The rest need to realise nowhere near good enough. A Klopp thunderbolt in that dressing room is required.

@jdklfc: These have got to stop talking and start bloody doing it on the pitch! Like everything in life, talking means sod all if you don’t act on it.

@lfcynwa_9: He gets it. Didn’t exclude himself. Someone needs to start flying in. Playing out of position and playing next to a mistake waiting to happen must be tough. Didn’t think he was bad too other than one mistake (which didn’t cost a goal like the rest of the defence)

@__Jackkk_: All good coming out and talking like this but it should’t even need said. If you want to win things at the highest level you need to be a dog on the pitch, have a nasty streak! Players have downed tools & Arne needs to make changes

@LFCApproved: Curtis Jones being put in front of the camera reminds me of the tough times and Harvey Elliott was thrown into the media to answer questions. Where are those players in the leadership group to take accountability? Never to be seen until it’s going well.

@JasonSykes: Curtis Jones calling out the players in after match interview could mean that Slot has lost the dressing room and he’s missing the pressing tactics of old.

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