Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits his team may not be in pole position in the Premier League.
Despite losing 3-1 against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, Liverpool are still top of the table.
However, Klopp knows that Manchester City having two games in hand is a factor he cannot ignore.
He stated post-game on City: Look, if you want to find a specialist who becomes champion in England then I am probably not the right person to ask because most of the time we finished second, so I'm sorry to say that. You have to win football games, I know that, and as many as you can.
This today would have been a great one. But, how I said, if you can only become champions and we don't lose any game, that makes life really tricky. Since the final whistle I didn't think a second about the amount of games of Manchester City and who they will play and how they will play. Not for a second. We have to play to our potential. We have to deal with difficulties in the game, around the games and play our soul on the pitch, if you want, and then we will see where it ends up. But there is no guarantee for nothing.
But I didn't become nervous now because of two games in hand for City. We always expect City to win all of the games, to be 100 per cent honest, we don't even have to watch them even when they are 1-0 down and then it's 3-1 or whatever, it's always like this. It's all fine. For us, nothing really changed. We would have loved to win here, got a point or whatever actually we wanted to win here.
But for the whole 90 minutes we were not good enough. We had our phases and developed into the game, that's good. If we could have kept that going without all the other circumstances then that game could have looked differently, definitely. And we would still sit here and say Arsenal had the better start in the game but then we were there. But now we just have to congratulate Arsenal for three points."