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Gini Wijnaldum insists Liverpool are ready to get their Premier League challenge back on track when they face lowly West Ham at Anfield on Sunday.

The Reds’ 15-game unbeaten run ended in a dramatic 4-3 defeat at Bournemouth last weekend. The Dutch midfielder admits Jurgen Klopp’s men paid a heavy price for easing off after they went 3-1 up.

However, Wijnaldum says wounds have been licked and they are desperate to put things right against the Hammers.

“It is always important to bounce back,” he said.

“If you lose a game like we did last Sunday, it hurts. But we have to learn from the mistakes. This is an important game because we lost the last game.

“Maybe we were too relaxed at 3-1. I didn’t see it because I was playing but from the outside you see more than on the inside.

“The manager said after the second goal that it looked like we were feeling too relaxed, like we had already won the game and we didn’t do the same things we had done at the start. Maybe it was too comfortable.

“It is not that you can win a game easy. You have to do your best and make sure the things you are good at work.”

Klopp was philosophical when he spoke publicly after the late collapse on the South Coast and Wijnaldum insists he didn’t lose his rag in the dressing room either.

The manager has channeled his energy into work on the training ground this week rather than poring over the DVD with his players about what went wrong against the Cherries.

“He wasn’t really angry, more disappointed,” Wijnaldum added.

“We made mistakes where we conceded goals but it wasn’t like we played a really bad game. We did a lot of good things, we just made too many mistakes and that is why we lost the game.

“To be fair, what I have seen until now, he is a really positive manager. He always holds on to positive things and that is what he tried to do now also.

“We didn’t watch it, we all know what we did bad and what we can do better. He just wants to move on and make the things we didn’t do well better so we don’t make the same mistakes we did before.

“The manager is always busy trying to improve the team. He is always trying to search for solutions. He is not a manager who thinks everything is okay because we won.

“Not only in the games, also in the training, he’s searching for things we can do better. We all know there is a lot to improve.”