Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk believes winning the Premier League title can take the team to a new level.

The Netherlands centre-back is itching to drag Liverpool across the line to their first top-flight title since 1990 - but insisted Jurgen Klopp's men still have plenty more thirst for trophies.

"With two wins, we will be champions; but it doesn't stop there," Van Dijk told the Mail on Sunday. "We want to keep going, we want to take it into next season as well because that will start pretty quickly after the last game of this season.

"The manager spoke to us as well and said that what we do in these last nine games will set the tone for next season as well.

"We have not won the title yet. We have not won anything yet. But the aim is to start next season in the same fashion.

"We can be a team that can keep progressing. We have players who can progress and make big steps in their development. Winning the league would be a big experience that could take them to the next level."