“It is one thing we have now to enhance. I’d say a minimum of 75% of the time or much more, it is not even in regards to the first contact. It is the second section that’s the killer.

“Is it a psychological factor? I hope not. If that is in your head then it is a difficulty. Personally, it is not in my head.”

Excluding penalties, Liverpool have solely scored three targets from set-pieces within the league. Their distinction of minus 9 is their worst in a Premier League season.

“We’ve defended so many set-pieces very nicely. However we have conceded too many targets like that and it hurts. We’ve to enhance that. Coaching is the one strategy to get higher at it,” Van Dijk added.

“It isn’t been adequate. All of us realise that. We’ve spoken about it. We have to flip it round. That is why we work on it nearly each coaching session.”

Liverpool supervisor Slot mentioned: “Sadly we’re possibly the one staff that rarely scores from a set-piece and, even worse, we consistently concede.

“However then, I believe I mentioned two, three or 4 weeks in the past, we have now to make it possible for when issues go towards us – it could possibly be a set-piece, it could possibly be different issues – we nonetheless have to discover a strategy to win.

“Within the final two video games we conceded from a set-piece however we had been in a position to win and that hasn’t occurred many instances this season. That is progress for me, however it’s apparent there are extra issues for us to enhance and that is undoubtedly one in all them.

“I believe we have now been unfortunate in a number of conditions in our set-pieces. It’s 18 video games now and we have to enhance.”

Liverpool’s third league win in a row took them as much as fourth within the desk.