Source: Daily_Mail
Liverpool must improve, insists Alonso in desperate title rally cry
Hitting back: Xabi Alonso has urged his Liverpool team-mates to react positively to growing criticism over their attempts to prise the Premier League title
Criticism is growing and doubts are increasing about whether Liverpool can sustain a title challenge, having not won the championship for 19 years.
However, Alonso believes the players can work through their problems and get their campaign back on track.
'We have to keep going, that is the way we have to carry on if we are to have success this season,' he said.
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'Being critical of ourselves we need to improve in certain areas.
'The performance (against Everton) was better than Monday. We controlled the game much better.
'Of course we are not happy with the mistake we made (conceding the goal) but it was better.
'It was a good ball (from Fernando Torres for the goal) but we had a few more chances to score a second goal and it is something we have to work on and correct.'
At the double: Everton's Tim Cahill has twice been a thorn in Liverpool's side
Liverpool were undone by Tim Cahill at a set-piece for the second successive match as he escaped his marker to head Steven Pienaar's corner into the path of Joleon Lescott who had only to divert it past Jose Reina with his head from close range.
Cahill has been operating as a makeshift striker because of Everton's injury crisis and Alonso knows he will remain a threat in the FA Cup replay at Goodison Park a week on Wednesday.
'We are disappointed. We always expect to win home games but after they scored it was a difficult situation,' added the Spain midfielder.
'The team kept playing the same way and trying to score and we were unlucky.
'We know he (Cahill) is good in those situations and for the future we will have to get that right.
'We are confident we can go to Goodison and win. We don't have to fear anyone. We respect them but you can't fear anyone.'
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