Steven Gerrard knows Liverpool fans are beginning to believe they can win the Premiership title this season.

"It's nice but it raises expectations," he told Champions magazine, the official magazine of the Uefa Champions League. "It's important to stay humble.

"We know we're a good team, we know we're getting closer to a title challenge - we can say that. But we've got to prove we can stay in the race to the end.

"I can understand why people are saying it. We've gone down a couple of times by goals, we haven't given up and we've managed to turn games around. So now they're saying we've got title credentials."