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Brendan Rodgers admits Liverpool hit rock bottom last month but the Reds manager is confident surviving such a tumultuous period will be the making of his players.
Rodgers’ side lost three successive Premier League matches for the first time in his two-and-a-half-year reign as a nightmare run threatened to ruin Liverpool’s season.
The former Swansea boss found himself under pressure as a result, with questions from fans and media over whether he was the right man to lead Liverpool out of the crisis.
But the Reds responded positively to end November with a battling 2-2 Champions League draw against Bulgarian side Ludogorets and then a 1-0 league win over Stoke last weekend.
Liverpool followed that with a more convincing 3-1 victory at Leicester in midweek and Rodgers says morale at Anfield has improved significantly ahead of Saturday’s home clash with Sunderland.
“We were at a low as everyone saw,” Rodgers said.
“We had set such high standards here over the past couple of years and we had fallen way below that.
“I felt the performance levels weren’t quite right. But I felt the change after that. I felt that could be the making of us.”
Liverpool now face a defining month as they look to make up ground in the Premier League starting with the visit of Sunderland, before matches against Manchester United and Arsenal.
They also face Swiss side FC Basel knowing victory is required to reach the last 16 of the Champions League next week, and travel to Bournemouth in the League Cup quarter-finals a week after that.
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