Jordan Henderson urges Liverpool to find Consistency and improvement

To be leading 2-0 at 80 minutes you have to see the game out, it is a good lead.

Liverpool fans were well within their rights to stage a ticket price walkout and it did not cause the team to throw away a 2-0 lead against Sunderland, according to first-team coach Pepijn Ljinders.

Then in the final minute of regular time, Jermain Defoe bobbed up to net his sixth goal in his past six matches when firing home on the turn after receiving a ball from Black Cats new boy Wahbi Khazri.

“We have to take responsibility as individuals and a last 10 minutes like that was not good enough”.

“When you’re two-nil down at Anfield you think your day’s all over, but today we fought back from being two goals down with two quality goals of our own”. He’ll be hoping to keep up the good work on his trip to Villa Park on Feb 14 when the Reds are taking on the rock-bottom Aston Villa.

“For 82 minutes we played really well”.

“I thought the performance level for 80 minutes was very good”, Henderson added.

It was the case again after goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, like Henderson a former Sunderland favourite, who allowed Johnson’s free kick to creep in at his near post.

“In the last 10 minutes we dropped off too much and let them play longer balls”.

“It was a good free-kick by them for their first goal and I think that puts us under pressure”.

“For the new players, you worry about the fatigue level because they’ve not experienced this level of football before”, Allardyce said.

A point was more than deserved and the same could of been said when the Lads fell to defeat against Manchester City on Tuesday, but two positive performances were enough for O’Shea who praised his team-mates adaptability before challenging them to take the game to Manchester United next weekend at the Stadium of Light.

“We haven’t been very consistent, especially in the league and that is what we need to improve on”.