Liverpool No2 Pep Ljinders insists management feel no pressure amid a tight title race.

Ljinders has just returned to Liverpool this season.

He said, "I think the most important thing is that we feel excited, that we don't feel pressure, that we did a lot of hard work and that we prepared ourselves for these moments.

"It is a crucial period where we have to keep searching for the next step – and if we keep focusing on ourselves, on how we want to play, how we want to develop, how we want to put each team under pressure, then the results will come by themselves. That's important. It's a big chance, nothing more. We want to deserve it. I feel that the team is ready to play against whatever team, wherever, and that we can create problems [for the opposition] because of this.

"We need to use training the best we can, we have to really be prepared for the games in the same manner. That's it. I am pretty convinced we will find solutions again and again."