Joe Gomez looks to new Liverpool signings as crucial Champions League point made

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All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageAnd Gomez acknowledges missing out on next season's Champions League will have a major impact on the club and their evolving squad."We want to get Champions League football for next season," he said. We have to beat big teams if we're going to win that."And we've still got the Champions League.

We're coming to the business end of the season and we'll do everything we can to make something out of it."We've under-performed at times. We're not where we want to be in the Premier League but we still have the chance to put things right."Gomez began at right-back in Turkey and has started three of Liverpool's last four games having had a spell on the sidelines with a hip problem suffered when he collided with Alisson Becker in the defeat at Bournemouth in January.The 28-year-old will be hopeful of making only a sixth Premier League start of the season at the weekend with Slot prepared to rotate his resources once more.And Gomez said: "I just want to help the team wherever that will be, whether it's in the centre or at full-back."For me it's about getting rhythm and momentum.

But we have to take the positives. We know what it's like to have that on your side and we'll have that next week."Gomez was part of England's squad for the European Championships two years ago but hasn't been called up since either by subsequent interim head coach Lee Carsley or permanent boss Thomas Tuchel.And ahead of this summer's World Cup, the Liverpool man said of Tuchel: "I haven't spoken to him.