Bernardo Silva's bleak Man City admission will be music to Liverpool ears

Bernardo Silva has admitted is in a 'dark place' after a dismal week ended with a thrashing in Lisbon.

City's unbeaten streak across competitions was halted last week, and an escalating injury crisis has taken its toll. Pep Guardiola's men were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Tottenham

But worse was to come in the Champions League on Tuesday night as City was thumped 4-1 by Sporting CP and incoming boss . Phil Foden had given City the lead but Sporting roared back with Viktor Gyokeres scoring a hat-trick.

Speaking after the match, Silva told TNT Sports: "It's disappointing because we're a bit in a dark place right now. Everything looks to be going in the wrong way.

"Even when we are playing well we don't score our chances and we concede too easily. We definitely need to look inside and check what we're not doing well. And we need to get better very quickly otherwise it will be very difficult to come back from these losses.

"It's football. It's difficult to find reasons for what is happening to us. I don't remember in seven-and-a-half seasons this team losing three games in a row. It just looks like this team is going the wrong way now."

City travels to Brighton on Saturday and Silva has demanded a response from his teammates. He added: "The good thing is even though we have lost these three games we are still in a good position especially in the Premier League.

"After losing three games we are still in the main competitions fighting for everything. But we need to better, obviously. Our injured players need to come back because we need them and it's just not good enough tonight."

The admission will be well received by Liverpool, who cruised past Bayer Leverkusen at Anfield. The Reds look unstoppable right now under Arne Slot and lead the Premier League ahead of this weekend's matches.