Virgil van Dijk admitted he had no sympathy for Wout Faes after his two own goals cost Leicester.
The Foxes, who took an early lead at Anfield, were pegged back by Liverpool and ultimately left with nothing. The centre-half, who has been a strong performer, made two errors that allowed the hosts to pick up all three points after a lacklustre performance.
Faes' first own goal came as he ignored Daniel Ward's shout and sliced his clearance into the back of the net.
His second blunder, which came seven minutes later, saw him hammer his clearance straight in after Darwin Nunez's originally effort had come off the post.
Van Dijk had little sympathy for his opposite number when asked if he felt sorry for Faes. His immediate priority will be arresting Liverpool's own defensive problems as they were, once more, cut apart for Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's opening strike.
Liverpool's usually stellar defence has been got at on numerous occasions throughout the campaign. Some have put it down to their ageing midfield, which can no longer press like it once did. The Dutchman confessed the Reds weren't up to standard but was content with the three points.
He told Sky Sports: "At times I thought we were very poor today but sounds cliche, very important to win these types of games so that’s the positive. Now, we have to recover, improve for Brentford."
That sentiment was echoed by Trent Alexander-Arnold, who added: "I agree [it was poor], it wasn’t our best performance at all. At the end of the day, the most important thing is the result.
"You like the performances to go with it but the three points is the most important thing and try get into a position in the league where we think we should be, where we haven’t been. But these are the ones you look back on and think you need to win it, looking back on it at the end of the season, it doesn’t matter
"I think in the first-half we lacked intensity, I don’t want to say we got bullied but they beat us to the second balls, they were playing round us, outnumbered in midfield and found it too easy to be honest, we should’ve made it a lot harder. We pride ourselves on our intensity, especially out of the blocks and it just wasn’t there today, they scored the early goal and it caught us by surprise."
Liverpool's win backs up their Boxing Day success at Aston Villa and means they remain in sixth - two points off Tottenham in fourth having played the same amount of games. The next assignment for Jurgen Klopp's side is a game against Brentford.
