West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski says they go to Liverpool full of confidence.

After starting the season slowly, West Ham are now five games undefeated in all competitions, having only lost once in the last eight outings.

“You can see a clear improvement from the start of the season to the way we look now," said Fabianski. “I hope that it will stay like that and we will continue to grow as a team.

“In the way Sunday's game at Southampton finished, we are a little bit disappointed [to draw] because, especially in the second half, we really dominated them and had some really good chances to score another goal.

“It's good that we've kept the unbeaten run going and I believe at the same time the performance was really good, so I think you can always build on that."

After a below-par start to the season themselves, Liverpool have recorded huge victories over Rangers and Manchester City over the last week, but in Fabiański's opinion, those successes will not alter his team's mindset.

“As a player, you never really think there is an ideal or a not ideal time to play an opponent," he told whufc.com. “That's the fixture you have to play, and when you look at their players and where they've been in the last few seasons, you always have a huge respect for them as a team and as a football club.

“You know it's going to be tough playing at Anfield and for us it's a great fixture, a great challenge. We want to be a very competitive team and when you look at the recent games we've played against them we always have been.

“We managed to get some good results as well, so I hope we will perform well and give them a good game."