Brendan Rodgers believes Liverpool's struggles will get worse before it gets better.

“I think the pain is for now,” Rodgers said. “I think it’s unfortunate. It’s hard for the supporters and I understand that. It must be so difficult at the moment to see a team that for 18 months has been so fluent and dynamic. Now they probably look and see a team with maybe no resemblance to that in many ways. I understand that and there is no-one more frustrated than myself. We look at our game, which is based a lot on possession, but we were also a big threat in transition when we won the ball back and we were on the break. We don’t look a threat on the break at the moment. We could argue that we don’t even play in transition. We’re getting no one in behind, no one breaking lines.”

Rodgers expects Liverpool's fortunes to turnaround when Daniel Sturridge, Joe Allen and Emre Can return from injury.