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Jordan Henderson will lead Liverpool’s search for consistency at Selhurst Park on Sunday – after a home win which Jurgen Klopp described as the best Anfield performance of his reign.

Liverpool have only won back to back matches once this year, beating Exeter in the FA Cup and Norwich, but after Wednesday’s comprehensive demolition of Manchester City they travel to struggling Crystal Palace on Sunday.

Skipper Henderson said: “I think consistency has been our biggest downfall.

“Some games have been very good and we look as though we can beat anyone and other days we’ve been poor and haven’t really turned up.

In pictures: Liverpool 3-0 Manchester City

“We need to make sure we get that right and are more consistent in each game and I think if you do that you get a run of games when you are winning and the confidence is high and you start putting in those performances like that more consistently and start working your way up the league.”

The Reds skipper believes Klopp’s squad already has enough quality in its ranks, but just needs to find that indefinable quality - consistency.

“I think you can see that (quality),” he added. “Consistency is definitely an area where we need to be better. We need to consistently win games and perform in games but I think there are a lot of teams in the league like that.

“There is only probably Leicester who have been very consistent. I know Spurs have been very good of late but they got beat, Arsenal got beat, United were on a bad run and now they are doing quite well. The league has been up and down.”

Henderson also believes that when Jurgen Klopp is able to spend more time on the training ground with his players, results will follow.

Liverpool’s fixture list has been intense. The last time boss Jurgen Klopp enjoyed a full week to work with his players was the week before Christmas when the Reds lost 3-0 at Watford on December 20, then had a six day break before the Boxing Day match with Leicester.

“I think he (Klopp) has got over a lot of points he wanted to get over,” added Henderson “but I still think there is a lot more to get over to us.

“With the amount of games we’ve had - I know that’s not an excuse - I would imagine he would like more work on the training pitch. I am sure in the summer he will have pre-season to go through more tactical stuff.

“But if you look at the performance against City you can see some of the tactics he does give us and you can see how it works when it does work. thought we did that very well but you have to do that Sunday, not just City at Anfield but at Palace. You’ve got to keep on doing it and that will be the biggest test until the end of the season.”