'It's just unacceptable': Liverpool star rises to show CAPTAIN material

One Liverpool star showed captain material on an awful night for the Reds. One incredibly rare positive.

Liverpool sunk to yet another defeat on Wednesday evening. It's something we're now all used to, unfortunately.

This time it was PSV Eindhoven doing the damage as they scored four times at Anfield. They're the second team in a row to win by three goals at Liverpool's home, after Nottingham Forest won 3-0 at the weekend.

That's an unfathomable run of form for any Liverpool team, let alone one that spent £400m in the summer. We've never seen anything like it - nine defeats in 12 games.

The last time that happened? 76 years ago and Liverpool were relegated at the bottom of the first division table. Now, a repeat of that isn't exactly likely but it offers some perspective on just how bad this run is.

But perhaps there are positives to take away. We're reaching to find them but they are there.

Curtis Jones vs PSV

Curtis Jones started at right-back against PSV and his performance was decent. You can't ask for much more from a player out of position and Jones held his own for most of the game.

The real takeaway from his night, though, is how he handled himself. Jones was in front of the cameras afterwards, speaking with blunt honesty about Liverpool's efforts.

“I don’t have the answers," he told reporters, per the Telegraph. "Honestly, I don’t. I’m saying that to everybody. It’s just unacceptable,” said Jones. “I don’t even have to wait to think about it. I’m past being angry inside. I’m at the point now where I just don’t have the words.

“It’s hard because I’m playing for the team I support. I’m a fan, and I’ve seen this club all my life. In a long, long time, I haven’t experienced a Liverpool team going through a period like this with results like these.

“But at the end of the day, we still have that badge on our chest. And until that badge is gone, we’re always going to fight. We’re going to try and get this team back to where it needs to be, show everyone again what this club is about and why people call it the best team in the world. But right now, we’re in the s--- and it needs to change.”

But that was only one of Jones's interviews. He was equally as blunt to CBS Sports.

“It’s got to be on me and the rest of the lads to not be so nice where teams are coming here thinking, ‘We’re gonna win here. We’re gonna score two, three, four goals’," he said.

“No, you’re coming here and this used to be a place that you hated to come you know, with the fans, with us, how we played and how we’d go and press and we were just absolute dogs. And then we have the ball and then we play.

“Whereas now we hardly even play. There’s times when we do play but off-the-ball stuff, I think that’s the stuff that has to change.”

Jones if offering up a lot of the thoughts of fans with this. He's caught the general sentiment very well, in fact, and it's not something you always hear from players.

But his attitude on the pitch does largely match it, too. It was Jones who ran into the net to retrieve the ball after Dominik Szoboszlai's equaliser - he wanted another goal, not celebrating.

Jones was also one of the few to try and raise some heads after PSV's goals. It's the little things that show he's got the right attitude - a captain's attitude, in all honesty.

Now, he wasn't perfect in the game but he was also out of position. But Jones is out here making it clear that the standards need to rise and new things need to happen.

And if the rise of a player to a leadership role is a positive from this horrendous run then, while it doesn't exactly make it all worth it, it's at least something to take away.

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