Pep Lijnders is enjoying his role this season at Liverpool.

Lijnders enjoys equal status with fellow assistant Peter Krawietz, the man nicknamed 'The Eye', whose association with manager Jurgen Klopp dates back to their time together at Mainz.

“I feel good. It's a role that suits me, especially next to Jurgen," he told the Liverpool Echo.

“He is the motivator, the stimulator behind every forward step we make but he gives responsibility to the ones he trusts.

“I'm responsible for training and giving direction towards a plan for the week that gets the most out of the team. Together with Jurgen and Pete, we decide where we want to go in our sessions and I will make sure it's getting done. Everything we do is training is related to our ideas. Every exercise is specific to what we want to build.

“I prioritise what's more important to train and to let our ideas evolve - fundamental principles but in a less complex way. Then I create and contextualise specific exercises, where we want our players to learn, acquire and develop. I focus on what we can control, practise fundamentals of our game.

“I believe that you become what you believe so we stimulate high on and off the pitch standards. We work as hard as possible and see each training session as the game.

“I'm not trying to be a coaches' genius or give too much information, but to repeat 'our way' in each single minute of training.

“Our goal is to prove in each game that we are the better team. You can't feel fear in these stages of the season and the only way to erase this kind of fear is by training well and hard."