Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admitted to having a long talk with his squad following the Reds' 3-2 loss to Swansea on Saturday.
The Swans, who sat bottom of the Premier League at kickoff, became the first club since Manchester United last year to beat Liverpool at Anfield, riding a pair of Fernando Llorente goals and another strike from Gylfi Sigurdsson to maximum points.
And the German manager said he discussed a perceived lack of enthusiasm with his team during the reunion.
"We had a very intense period around Christmas and new year," the Liverpool manager told The Guardian. "Fair enough, so did everybody else, but before the Swansea game I actually thought we were back on the right track, with the freshness coming back. But what I spoke most about was enjoying what we do.
"We are Liverpool, a really good football-playing side, and we don't enjoy the job we have to do. It is not as though we are a team at the bottom of the league that has to defend 80 percent or 90 percent of the time.
"In most of our games we are dominant, so we have to enjoy this, even when we don't come through after five minutes."
Also on the meeting's agenda was the Reds' leaky defence, which has allowed six goals over its last three Premier League matches.
"We scored two goals, enough to win the game, but I felt the defending could be improved. I also think the goals we have conceded in 2017 have been a little bit of the same story," Klopp said.
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