Lovren determined to keep his head up

It will have been a tough couple of days for Dejan Lovren after what was – arguably – his worst day in a Red shirt. He’s probably had worse games, overall, but his attempts at defending in a fairly easy situation that led to West Ham’s first goal will haunt him for a long time to come.

Unfortunately for Lovren, he now has to wait until after the international break to make an attempt at redemption, and given the modern day fan’s propensity for over-analysing every incident on the field the defender will find himself under close scrutiny in the time until the game at Old Trafford against Manchester United.

But, to Lovren’s credit, he is determined to bounce back. Speaking to Liverpoolfc.com, Lovren said: “I’m the first one who is disappointed with myself. Of course for the first minute after the second goal I wanted to go under the table. What can I do?

“In these moments you have to keep your head up and to play the rest of the game. I tried everything but what can I say? It was a bad decision by me and mistakes happen.

“But it is finished. The game is finished. I’ve forgotten it already. Now it is the national team and in two weeks we have Manchester United.

“We didn’t expect to start the game like we did. In the first 10 minutes we conceded an early goal and after my mistake it was a poor performance, I would say.

“The early goal, I would not say it killed us but it is disappointing when you start like this. Then the second goal also, it is tough to go in at half-time when you’re 2-0 down.

“We tried everything in the second half, we tried to play with three at the back but after the red card it was tough to come back.”

With both Kolo Toure and Mamadou Sakho likely to be available for the trip to United, Lovren may find himself benched but if he is given a chance to banish the memories of the defeat to West Ham on Saturday he needs to take it with both hands.