Dalglish wants Liverpool to be more clinical

The 60-year-old believes that the Reds have been unlucky not to score more so far this season and insists that his squad are ready for the gruelling winter schedule.Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish believes that his side’s failure to convert enough of their chances into goals belie his team’s good form.The Reds currently lie sixth in the Premier League table and the Scottish boss believes that results such as this month’s 1-0 loss to Fulham do not tell the whole story.“I think the only stat that isn't in our favour is probably in the goals-for column,” Dalglish said to the club’s official website.“We've got fewer points than the performances deserve. We've got that in our own hands and we'll just continue to do what we've done and sooner or later we'll turn our chances into goals.“We've not come up against a goalkeeper who hasn't been outstanding against us. I think 16 times against the woodwork makes a contribution as well.“At the same time, the responsibility is on us to create chances and then finish them off.“We'll probably win a game scoring every chance that we make.”The Kop legend is adamant that his squad are ready for the rigorous winter programme in the Premier League, with six matches set to be played within 20 days, starting with Sunday’s clash against Aston Villa.“Obviously you take into account the fixtures you've got coming up and how many days you've got in between,” said the Scot.“There is a great deal of thought that goes into the process. After the first game, you take into account how your players are before you move into the second game - but you do that before every match.“The games do come thick and fast now and we've just got to deal with it, but you do take into consideration the workload. Everything is monitored anyway, so you've got a good idea of how the players are.“We'll get the first game done, and then we'll worry about the one after it. We know what fixtures we've got coming up, but there is not a great of thought that goes into the one beyond the Aston Villa game.“The greatest influence on the team against Aston Villa will be who we're playing against - not the game that's coming after that at Wigan. First thing’s first.”Dalglish refused to be drawn on his plans for the Villa match, but admitted that he expects a tough game.“It's been difficult for Alex McLeish moving from Birmingham to Villa, obviously, but he seems to have got them going a little bit, just at a bad time for us,” he said.“They got a fantastic result at Bolton at the weekend. We aren't doing bad either, so we'll be respectful and look forward to a difficult game.“Our away form has been really impressive. We got beaten the last time away from home [by Fulham] but the performance was good enough to have won it.“We'll just keep going like we have done before.”