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Liverpool keeper Karius understands improvement still needed

Loris Karius understands he must continue to improve on his "pretty good form" for Liverpool.

The German has established himself as Jurgen Klopp's number one goalkeeper this year after previously having shared the role with Simon Mignolet.

"We had good results. I think apart from the game in Swansea, that was of course frustrating for us, we did well," he told Liverpoolfc.com, after being asked to evaluate his displays since he took the No.1 spot.

"We're on a good run right now and it was good to get the run of games so far, help the team now and then with some saves and get in the rhythm again. So all in all, [it's been] pretty good.

"[But] You have to perform week in, week out to stay in there. Even when you're established maybe now as No.1 you always have to perform good and prove it week by week, so there's never really any laying back or anything.

"There are so many games, so many important games, so you just have to be at your best every week, really."

He added: "Of course clean sheets are the best thing you can get for defenders and goalkeepers, so I think in the last few games even at times when we weren't attacking much and got a bit deep we stuck together and defended it well.

"The opponent had a few chances but then you have to defend and stick together, and up front we can always score goals. There's definitely been improvement there. It wasn't bad before, it's just got better in the last few weeks."

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