Virgil van Dijk offers scathing assessment of Liverpool’s stoppage-time loss to Wolves | OneFootball

Virgil van Dijk did not try and come up with excuses as Liverpool slumped to another stoppage-time defeat at bottom club Wolves.

Andre’s 94th-minute deflected strike proved the difference in a 2-1 win for Rob Edwards’ side, who have now taken points off three of the top five in their last three home outings, despite being doomed for relegation.

Liverpool had already fallen behind once only for Mohamed Salah to end his goal drought and get his side on terms, but his efforts proved in vain as Wolves came away with all three points.

Dealt a blow in their push for Champions League qualification, Van Dijk put full responsibility of the defeat on the team.

Liverpool suffered another late defeat at Molineux (Action Images via Reuters)

"I think it's down to ourselves,” he told TNT Sports. “It was slow, we were predictable, sloppy in possession and wrong decision-making.

“We didn't concede chances but if you perform like that then a result like this can be a result of that and that's a fact. It was disappointing."

Liverpool wasted the first half of the contest at Molineux in what was an action-starved 45 minutes of football, with neither side producing anything resembling a clear-cut chance.

"It's not one reason why that's the case,” Van Dijk responded when asked to explain the slow start. “The game nowadays we over-analyse why things are happening on the pitch.

“We as a team want to start a game as well as we can and in the last game we did, today we had majority possession but we were still making wrong decisions and we couldn't find the end product."

Reds manager Arne Slot, meanwhile, bemoaned his side’s tendency to concede late on this season, having lost five games - against Crystal Palace, Chelsea, Bournemouth, Manchester City and now Wolves - in second-half stoppage-time.

"We hardly conceded a chance, created not so much but more than they did, but the result is again a 2-1 loss,” Slot said.

"We are losing far too many football games and dropping points. Was it again in extra-time that we conceded? The three times we lost in the last 22 games were all three in extra time."