Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says hauling in Manchester City was about focusing on themselves.
The Reds were top of the table for several hours yesterday, having been 15 points behind City earlier this season.
After victory over Watford, Klopp said: "We didn't have a lot of opportunities or alternatives to do it differently. Because we are 14 points behind City, that means you are in trouble with qualifying for the Champions League if the others are not 15 points away as well, or 20 points. That was the reason. If you cannot become champions, we have to qualify for the Champions League and that's why there was no reason to think about anything different. And the rest came then.
"We had no influence in that, we had no chance to influence City's games since then. I saw some of them; even when they didn't win, the performance level was incredible. So we didn't really think about it.
"We wanted to qualify for the Champions League, we wanted to come in the cup competitions as far as possible and if possible win it, of course. The rest just happened while we were trying to play the best football possible.
"Today we didn't obviously play the best football possible but it was good enough to be a deserved win of a football game and that must be sometimes just enough. I was really happy today with the whole stuff, we came through. I didn't expect for one second we will be flying today but we had good moments, lesser-good moments, once where we needed Ali, two nice goals and all good.
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