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"The players ended up third last season, not 12th, so they knew they could compete with the likes of Arsenal and Man City.

"The good thing is that we are in an even better place than we were last season but it’s not a massive difference - this club has always competed with one exception two years ago.

"We knew we had challenges to face but we’ve always put the pressure on ourselves that we wanted to compete in every single cup and league we are playing in.



So these two games we are going to play now have already been played by Arsenal – Villa away and City away.

The positive thing is that, after these two games, we’ve got seven home games and four away.

And he adds: "If there’s any experience I’ve learned from winning a league title, it is in general in a season if there are 38 games to be played, don’t expect you have 38 times fantastic football.

"If you are a very good team and a very special team you play 20-25 very good games then you play a few mediocre ones and you play a few very bad ones.

But it is more about the results in the mediocre or bad ones than the 20-25 because they are ones you will probably win.

"It is normal in a season that it is not 38 times the best football that is ever played.

Not in the history of Liverpool, not in the four years City won the league and not this time with us or Arsenal or City or Chelsea.

"What I still see (from the players) and what I ask from them, you can play 25 games well, some mediocre and some bad but the work-rate in every single game should be the same.
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