Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is reluctant to declare them back in the title race.
Back-to-back victories over Manchester City and West Ham United at Anfield in the last few days has put them seven behind Pep Guardiola's side, who remain firm favourites for the title this season.
With Manchester United being entertained by Chelsea on Saturday evening before Newcastle travel to Tottenham on Sunday, the Reds' lunchtime kick-off at Nottingham Forest presents them with a great chance to catapult themselves back into the top-four mix.
"We have no influence on it," Klopp said. "We don't play Man City or Arsenal now, we play all the others if I am right?
"We have to win every game, our aim is to win the next game and get three points. Honestly, we've never had a different aim. The long-term aim, I would really like to rewind the movie a bit and when someone asks me if I am still in the title race and I say 'yes, of course!' then people would think 'my God! Finally he realises he is a bit dumb!'
"We cannot say it because it is not the case. Our aim is to somehow win as many games as possible. If that brings us closer to fight for whatever, then great."
Klopp added: "At the moment we realise that we are close enough then we will go for it, but what that is I have no idea. Is it the top six? Top four? But each three points brings us closer to the area where we want to be and where we should be.
"Please don't think that we don't have targets or that we are aimless. We are still full of ambition but we have to do it step by step and game by game and that starts at Nottingham."
