InterviewCody Gakpo's Arsenal preview: Premier League aims, forward role and more

Arne Slot's team travel to take on the current league leaders at Emirates Stadium in an 8pm GMT kick-off.

The Reds enter the fixture unbeaten in their last nine outings across all competitions, though were most recently held to a 2-2 draw by Fulham on Sunday.

Gakpo had put his side ahead at Craven Cottage with a close-range finish in added time but Harrison Reed's long-range effort denied Liverpool three points.

Arsenal are yet to taste defeat on home soil this season. However, the Reds overcame them 1-0 in the reverse meeting in August, securing victory via a stunning Dominik Szoboszlai free-kick.

"[It's] a very big game," Gakpo told Liverpoolfc.com. "I think the game itself is very big but regarding our situation as well it's a big game for us to show what we can do.

"We try to do that the whole season and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. But I think [with] the situation we are in it really has to work in this game. In some [different] ways it's a big game."

Read on for the full interview with the No.18…

On the next target being to climb the Premier League table...

That's the mindset and how it should be. We need to go game by game and keep climbing. That's what we're working towards together every day again and even though sometimes the results are disappointing, or the performance is not as good as we want it to be, we stay together and we keep working towards that goal.

On leading the attack as a striker against Fulham...

I enjoyed it. It was a long time ago for me that I played there. It was good. I can do whatever the team asks me to do and I will do whatever I can to be the best version of myself and to try to help the team as much as I can.

On scoring double figures for club and country this season...

That's a good achievement for myself but I think the main focus from me and the whole team is the situation here and I think we can do so much better than we are showing. Everybody knows what we did last season, but I think we as a team also feel the quality we have and we sometimes show [it] in games and especially in training, but that has to come out in every game. Then it's not about the figures but the enjoyment we will have on the pitch and to show everybody what we can do.

On it being three years today since his debut for Liverpool...

I didn't reflect yet, but I think it's a nice mark. Three years and we've been through a lot with the whole team and the whole club. [We've had] very good moments and also very low moments as well. [I've had] lots of experience and hopefully we can make many more beautiful memories.