Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says they must stay calm as they chase a top four finish.
Liverpool sit six points from the Champions League places ahead of this weekend's round of fixtures and face a United outfit unbeaten in their last 11 matches across all competitions.
Klopp, though, knows his side must continue the good signs of progress they made domestically in midweek and produce another strong showing in front of their home supporters.
"The important thing about the chase [for the top four] is it's not a one-day trip - you really have to go for it," Klopp, ahead of facing Manchester United on Sunday, told his pre-match press conference on Friday.
"I have no clue what it means for them [other teams], but I think they realise already that we are not completely gone. So, it's not that we are in no man's land and that's clear, but we play pretty much all of the teams ahead of us still.
"OK, Newcastle not anymore, but Tottenham is coming here and stuff like this. Tottenham won their game against Chelsea so if they win all the games our chase is now over already, for example.
"We don't have to think about it, we just have to take it game by game and go full throttle for it - go really into the game and try to win it somehow and use the good moments and don't suffer from the lesser-good moments.
"[There are] so many things you have to do and that's what I liked about the game [against Wolverhampton Wanderers]. I know it was not the most fancy football game we've ever played, we had a difficult first half but a good first half actually. It was good. It was just a normal football game; it's not now like you create chance after chance after chance. But against a defensively good, organised side you create two [or] three moments and were the better team, stuff like this.
"We are not flying but good and then we miss a goal - the disallowed goal - and then we score two and overcame this as well, so growing into the game, [it's] very important in football.
"You can't only win the games when the first shot is a goal. A lot of good things happened now in the last few weeks, even when because of the Madrid game it doesn't feel like that, but it was, so far it goes in the right direction, but we have to make further steps.
"What it then means for the other teams I don't know, I'm not there, but they know we are still around and that's better than [if] they couldn't see us anymore."