It’s been a tough season for Andy Robertson, one of the most experienced and longest-serving players in the Liverpool squad.

Throughout his nearly eight-year stint on Merseyside, the Scotland international has been a model of consistency and a guaranteed starter. This season, however, has been perhaps his most difficult to date at Anfield.

Performances have dropped, mistakes have been a regular occurrence, and Liverpool continues to be linked with left-backs in the transfer market. That Jamie Carragher regularly petitions the Reds to make additions in that area doesn’t help.

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“I am a lot more experienced and a lot better at switching off from everything like over-reactions and things like that,” the former Hull City man said in November. “Probably a bad 45 minutes of football against Arsenal, it was not great. I think pretty much everyone had written me off after that.

"That is football and that is what happens these days. People can write me off all they want. But I will always try to keep working, keep improving.”

Following a particularly poor performance against Nottingham Forest last month, Robertson dropped out of the starting line-up for the trip to Brentford four days later.

But his levels have improved over recent games and Robertson even was deployed as a makeshift center-back at PSV Eindhoven last week. Saturday’s display away to Bournemouth was one of his best of the season so far, and the fans made their feelings known via social media.

The 30-year-old

from the 2-0 win at the Vitality along with the caption: “Big win on the road.” The responses were glowing. ‘Top’, ‘Don't listen to any hate Robbo, you're a great player, class is permanent’, ‘Now that's like our prime robbo’ and ‘You had a great game today’.

An experienced player such as Robertson won’t get sucked in by the fickle nature of football fans, but the online reaction at least may suggest his performances could be on the up.

That will be needed amid such a busy run of upcoming fixtures, with Liverpool potentially set to play eight matches in February. The rearranged Merseyside derby from December will be squeezed in next week, while the trip to Aston Villa might be moved from mid-March to 19 February if Liverpool beats Tottenham Hotspur in midweek and progresses to the Carabao Cup final.