Arne Slot has admitted Liverpool are struggling to adapt to a new style of play.
The Premier League champions head to Chelsea on Saturday evening after a difficult start to the new campaign which has seen them suffer back-to-back losses.
Prior to those defeats against Crystal Palace and Galatasaray, the Reds had staved off potential upsets with a succession of late winning goals in multiple competitions.
But Slot concedes that his side are wrestling with an alternative way of working after investing more than £450 million in new talent during the summer transfer window.
He said: “We were very happy winning the league, but we didn’t shut our eyes for the second part of the season.
“[About] how many times we needed a set-piece to win, which is not something bad because Arsenal and Chelsea are needing a set-piece almost every single game at the moment..
“That’s why we also had the window that we had – sometimes to replace, sometimes to add a certain quality.
“It’s up to us to show that we can do better in these kind of games than we did in the second part of last season and the first part of this season.
“In the meantime, we almost won every single game (this season).
“But the margins are not the same any more as the first part of the last season, with 3-0 against Bournemouth, 6-3 at Tottenham and 5-0 at West Ham.
“And then you depend a bit more on luck or bad luck or on a set-piece.
“We are trying to go to a situation where we don’t need a set-piece to win a game or we don’t need someone to fall on the ground to get a penalty, or a referee to do extra time of extra time of extra time.
“That is something we dislike.”