Dalglish: We've got to improve
Kenny Dalglish admitted his side had to improve following a goalless draw with Swansea on Saturday.
There were chances at both ends but the afternoon ended with a third successive home draw for the Reds.
Dalglish reflected: "Our performance was disappointing. Swansea played the way we expected them to play but we didn't play the way we expected to play. Maybe if the chance went in early doors it would have changed the complexion of the game but as well as paying credit to Swansea we have to look at ourselves.
"Anything we're good at we didn't do much of today. We're usually good at passing and movement but there wasn't much of that there. When we got it back we gave it away quickly.
"We've got to understand, realise and accept that that level of performance isn't acceptable."
Andy Carroll hit the crossbar to make it 10 times this season that Liverpool have been denied by the woodwork.
"Even at the death the goalie's made a couple of good saves," Dalglish added.
Click below to watch Kenny speak to the press after the Swansea draw
"We must be getting closer if the goalkeeper was tested today - usually we miss the target! That's 11 (sic) times we've hit the post or the bar this season.
"The most important thing is to create the chances, the next is to put them away.
"There's no one in the history of football who's deliberately missed a chance, we just need to keep working on it, getting in there. But we never got in there today as much as we have done in past games. That was a disappointing thing for us."
Asked about Steven Gerrard's fitness following an ankle infection, Dalglish added: "He's fine. As we said Thursday, the figures are hugely encouraging. He's well on his way to recovery."