As the dust settles on the disappointing and contentious defeat to Stoke City, attention now turns to Sunday`s visit to White Hart Lane to face Tottenham Hotspur.
It`s a key game with both teams harbouring Champions League qualification ambitions at the end of the season and Liverpool`s first-team coach Steve Clarke is backing the team to bounce back.
“When you’ve been in football as long as I have you know these things can happen. You can completely dominate the game, create many chances and not manage to get a goal that would have given us some reward for the hard work we put in,’ Clarke told Liverpoolfc.tv.
“Stoke got a soft penalty which gave them an undeserved lead and I think that was the first time they had been in our penalty box.
“Once they got themselves in front they proved to be very difficult to break down and they were difficult opponents on the day.
“Everyone was disappointed in the dressing room after the game because we lost the game. We as the coaching staff have to try to put forward the positives.
“We played well and we created enough chances to have won two games so we have to give the players the positives and understand their disappointment at the same time.
“It’s a long season and you know you will get setbacks but it’s how you react to those setbacks. The mood in training has been fine and the players know they performed to an acceptable standard obviously without the required result against Stoke.
“We have to make sure when we go to Tottenham on Sunday that we put in an acceptable performance, only this time make sure we get the required result.”
Stay tuned to Vital Liverpool for a preview of the game over the coming days and a full match report following the final whistle.
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