“It is one thing we now have to enhance. I’d say a minimum of 75% of the time or much more, it isn’t even concerning the first contact. It is the second part 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 isn’t 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 option to get higher at it,” Van Dijk added.

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

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

“However then, I feel I stated two, three or 4 weeks in the past, we now have to ensure that when issues go towards us – it may very well be a set-piece, it may very well be different issues – we nonetheless have to discover a option to win.

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

“I feel we now have 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.