Liverpool defender hopeful about the team’s future

have had a sloppy run this season. The title defenders are not performing as expected in the Premier League and are currently standing seventh in the table.

Champions League, on the other hand, is of a different story. The Reds managed to defeat

4-0 on aggregate to advance to the quarter-finals of the competition.

In an interview with

, Liverpool defender

has talked about the team’s situation. The Scotland international acknowledges Liverpool weaknesses but believes the team still has the chance to end the season in good terms.

He said:

"Of course the results at club level haven't been good enough.

"We believe that we should be higher up the table and competing which we were doing before Christmas.

"We just took a bad turn but hopefully we have seen the back of that now. Hopefully we can show the Liverpool of old and we can keep kicking on and the season might not be all bad come the end of it. There's still a long way to go.

"Unfortunately we have not had as good a season as we probably thought but there's still time to fix it - not to the extent we would like to fix it - but there's still time to make it a bit better.

"We're used to juggling two competitions. We have got to go on all fronts. We need to go for both - we need to get up the league as high as possible - we need to put a run together.

"We have struggled for consistency this season. You don't make the top four unless you put six, seven, eight results together and that's what we need at the end of the season."

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