The Reds have lost six out of seven Premier League matches.

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk surveyed the “mess” their season had become and called on all the players to start taking more responsibility, insisting they were letting down head coach Arne Slot.

The 3-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest – a sixth in seven league matches – left the defending champions 11th, the first time in more than a decade the club have been in the bottom half of the table.

Van Dijk usually offers a level-headed assessment after matches but the latest defeat prompted words like “mess” and “panic”.

“We are definitely letting him (Slot) down but we’ve let ourselves down as well,” he said.

“You look at yourself first and then you help each other, you help each other get out of this mess because at the mom

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