Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers feels his side were unfortunate to be beaten 1-0 at Newcastle but admitted that his side did not do enough to get the points.
Liverpool struggled to create chances at St James' Park as their disappointing start to the season continued, with the Reds having claimed only 14 points from their opening 10 games.
Rodgers had said ahead of the match that he had anticipated his side would struggle initially following the departure of Luis Suarez to Barcelona, and he told BT Sport after the defeat: "We're going to be a slow process because there was so many changes.
"We haven't started how we would like but we will improve. I think we showed that in the period when I first came here after six months.
"Understandably for the supporters it will be a difficult period for them but we can only continue to work hard and we'll analyse today's game -- it was fairly straightforward.
"We didn't create enough. We had enough of the ball, we had enough of the possession, found it in good areas, we just didn't create enough in the final third and then we gave away a very bad goal to lose the game 1-0. We'll just continue to work and work as well as we have done over the past couple of years and we're confident we'll get the results."
He added: "I didn't think we deserved to lose the game, but we didn't do enough to win it."
Mario Balotelli is still searching for his first Premier League goal for Liverpool and caused a minor controversy after emerging very late for the second-half kick-off but Rodgers said: "It has no bearing at all on the result."
Rodgers said Liverpool's own mistake had cost them the game but was unhappy that referee Andre Marriner only booked Moussa Sissoko for a second-half challenge on Joe Allen when he felt a red card was the only option.
He said: "The only one I have seen was Sissoko's challenge on Joe Allen where he should have been sent off, if you watch that again. That was the only challenge I thought that probably looked not as bad at the time, but when you see it again, it was a bad challenge."
Rodgers now faces the task of raising spirits for Tuesday night's daunting Champions League trip to Real Madrid.
He said: "We have worked very hard for a couple of years to get to this level and playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu says we've been doing OK.
"We are in a transitional phase and have to do better. It's a wonderful game for us. It is a big week against the best in the world at the moment. We will go into the game hoping to get something out of it."
Information from the Press Association was used in this report.