Simon Mignolet believes Liverpool lack the ability to kill off their opponents.

The Reds took a fourth-minute lead through Adam Lallana against FC Sion in the Europa League at Anfield on Thursday.

Mignolet's side had chances to double the lead before Ebenezer Assifuah levelled on 18 minutes for the visiting Swiss outfit.

As the game went on, Liverpool created more and more opportunities but in the end were unable to land a killer blow, prompting the following comments from goalkeeper Mignolet.

"When you play at home in the Europa League you want to win the game and I think we started really well, getting in front," he told Liverpoolfc.com.

"But unfortunately we [conceded] on the counterattack. With our threat, we created a lot of chances, unfortunately we didn't manage to score the second goal that would've given us the victory we wanted.

"We have to be killers, kill the game off. If you score a second time then they go down and it's very difficult to come back from that.

"But we learn from that and take it into the next few games."