Jurgen Klopp has explained why he "killed the winning mood" in the Liverpool dressing room despite his team continuing their impressive start to the campaign.
The runaway Premier League leaders reached the halfway point of the top-flight season having taken 55 points from a possible 57 following a narrow 1-0 triumph against Wolves on Sunday.
However, the Liverpool players admitted after the game they had fallen way short of their best form against opponents where were only denied an equaliser by a controversial VAR offside call.
And Klopp said: "I don't know exactly what the boys said after but we were not happy with all parts of the game.
"We were happy with the result, but the game gave us a lot of space for improvement, you don't have to be a super football brain to see that.
"I told the boys what I thought we should have done better immediately after the game and maybe that killed the winning mood.
"I was really happy about the result but we have to work on performances.
"We never did it and should not start lying to ourselves like everything is fine when it's not because we have to make sure that we improve. We will do, 100%."