Emre Can: LFC Must Improve Consistency, Reap Reward By Qualifying For Europe

Emre Can believes the Barclays Premier League standings don’t offer a true reflection of Liverpool’s progress since the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager.

But the midfielder acknowledges that he and his teammates must show more consistency between now and the end of the season to ensure they are rewarded for their improvement.

The Reds currently sit in ninth place in the English top flight but have two games in hand on Southampton and Stoke City, which are in seventh and eighth, respectively, and have played one fewer than Manchester United, West Ham United and Manchester City, the sixth-, fifth- and fourth-placed teams in the division.

As such, Can says qualification for European competition remains the goal for Klopp’s men, and he has seen enough in their recent performances to know a late surge is entirely possible.

“You should not only look at the standings,” he told kicker. “We still have to play one, two matches more than the teams ahead of us, we can still gain a few spots. Thus we have achieved something under Jurgen Klopp.

“You should look at the football we have played in recent weeks. We’ve made a huge step forward as a team and have put in good performances most of the time.

“A berth in an international competition clearly has to remain our goal. Our problem is that we are just not consistent enough.

“We follow up two good matches with one bad match too often. We need to manage to be consistent for a longer period of time. This also applies to me.”