Virgil van Dijk admits Liverpool have no hiding place after a run of four straight defeats but says the squad cannot allow themselves to wallow in what is now the worst run for 11 years.

A 2-1 defeat to Manchester United on Sunday afternoon condemned Arne Slot and his Premier League champions to a fourth successive reverse following losses at Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and Chelsea before the international break.

Liverpool have not been on a run as bad since November 2014 under Brendan Rodgers and a fifth defeat in a row, at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday night, could equal an unwanted record that was set in the 1950s.

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Van Dijk accepts the players must stand up and muster a response in Germany this week but says they cannot let a woeful patch impact them too much when the Champions League returns.

“We will analyse everything that happened but I've mentioned it many...