YOSSI BENAYOUN admits that Liverpool must find their form and quickly to avoid seeing their Premier League title hopes crash and burn inside the opening weeks of the season.

Liverpool travel to Bolton Wanderers on Saturday in the precarious position of having picked up just three points from a possible nine so far.

Another defeat this weekend would all but end Rafael Benitez’s teams title run – before it’s even begun.

In the aftermath of Monday’s shock home defeat to Aston Villa, the Israeli international said: “Of course we are very disappointed. We didn’t expect to lose but it was just one of those games.

“We need to try and improve and quickly, starting on Saturday.

“We didn’t play like we can play, we didn’t move the ball like we did against Stoke in the second half.

“We missed our chances, particularly in the first half, and we conceded two goals from set-pieces.

“The second goal was a major blow. Losing 1-0 half-time you think you can get back into it, but 2-0 right on half-time put everyone down a little bit.

“We played a bit better in the second half, but everything went wrong for us.

“To lose two out of three is unusual for us. We lost only twice through the whole of the last Premier League season, and we have to show that we are still a strong team.

“We need to recover from this and look to work game by game, and work hard to play better.

“At a club like Liverpool, if you lose two or three games then people will ask if we are strong enough to win the league. But there is still a long way to go, everything can change.

“If we go on a long winning run then people will start talking differently about us.”

Even Benitez pinpointed the club’s senior stars as being instrumental in turning around Liverpool’s flagging start.

But Benayoun believes that only a team effort will get them out of the early season slump.