Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson accepts his side have a relegation fight on their hands.
Following the shock 2-1 home loss to Blackpool on Sunday, the Reds fell deep into the drop zone and although Hodgson was originally bullish about their current position, he now accepts that things are looking gloomy.
"Things are looking really, really bleak. It has been said that if you are in the bottom three, you are in a relegation fight, and I would have to go along with that," admitted Hodgson.
"But I'm not thinking too much about relegation with 31 games left. My concerns are that we are not playing to our full potential, or are only doing it in periods. In the first half we were punished for a lacklustre display.
"We had the ball as much as they did but didn't do anywhere near enough with it to satisfy my demands, the club's demands or the players' demands on themselves."
