Andy Robertson has admitted that if Liverpool are to improve their poor start to the Premier League season, they must start games faster.
The Reds have trailed in their first three games this year, but none of those games have resulted in victories this time. In their final four games of the 2021–2022 season, they conceded first, winning three and drawing the other.
Robertson, a Scotland international, urged his team to make changes right away because it was the first time since 2012/13 that Liverpool had lost all three of their opening games.
“It’s definitely not been the start of the season we wanted, it’s been really poor,” Robertson told Sky Sports after Monday’s 2-1 defeat to Manchester United.
“We give every team a goal start and that’s the base of the game, you can’t keep giving yourself an uphill battle, we’ve conceded an early goal again, started slow again that’s what needs to change.
“You can’t keep going behind especially, in the warmup it’s the quietest I’ve ever heard this stadium. They wanted something to lift them and unfortunately we gave them it.
“We need to pull our fingers out quickly, we need to come together as a team because we can’t keep going out there, it’s easy talking about it in the changing room, before the game but we have to go out and do it. We have to be a team that starts the game well, puts the pressure on the team not the other way around.
“That’s three games this season, maybe Crystal Palace is different. We started the game well but Fulham started better than us, [United] started better than us today.
“Last season, Wolves, Real Madrid, Southampton… it needs to change. In this league you can’t keep giving them a head start, that’s what we’re doing.”
