Andrew Robertson believes Liverpool have been let off the leash. The stand-in skipper hailed the Reds’ recent begin following their 3-1 win at Wolves on Saturday.
Robertson scored his first purpose since Could 2022 – additionally towards Wolves – with 5 minutes left earlier than Harvey Elliott‘s shot deflected in off Hugo Bueno in stoppage time.
It capped a comeback began by Cody Gakpo‘s second-half equaliser and prolonged Liverpool’s unbeaten run within the Premier League, stretching again to final season, to 16 video games.
They completed fifth final season, 22 factors adrift of champions Manchester Metropolis however Robertson welcomed the clear slate.
“It’s a brand new begin. We’ve acquired a number of new gamers, form of a brand new means of taking part in and issues like that. So I believe we simply be happy,” he advised the membership’s official web site after a fourth straight win.
“We’ve acquired good, thrilling younger gamers that typically you possibly can in all probability see that within the first half the place it was time to simply put the foot on the ball and we had been nonetheless perhaps attempting to power it.
“Then within the second half, they simply got here out, performed with no worry and we made actually good substitutions. Darwin brought on issues, Harvey brought on issues and Luis Diaz comes on at half-time.
“So, we’ve acquired a robust squad, we’ve nonetheless acquired gamers clearly lacking with Trent and Thiago.
“They weren’t within the squad so we are able to solely get stronger. But when we preserve everybody match, we consider that we’ve acquired a squad that may compete, and we have to carry on displaying that.”
Hwang Hee-chan gave Wolves an early lead and the hosts dominated the vast majority of the primary half, with Matheus Cunha lacking a golden likelihood to double their lead.
Defeat means Gary O’Neil’s facet have misplaced 4 of their opening 5 league video games, regardless of promising performances below the brand new head coach.
“Just like the coach mentioned after the sport towards Manchester United, we can not carry out at this type of stage and have this type of recreation – the primary half we dominated the sport – and get out of it with zero factors,” Pedro Neto advised the membership’s official web site.
“We’re feeling it so much, however we’ve to proceed to work, we’ve to take factors. We’ve to proceed to do these first halves and take what we did within the first half into the second half.”
