Press conferenceJürgen Klopp: Right direction but we have to make further steps

The Reds have recorded four consecutive clean sheets in league action and are looking to make it back-to-back victories inside a week in L4.

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 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."

On this weekend's contest with United, Klopp added: "We can cut it in pieces - [it's] just three points, that's pretty much the only normal stuff. Like in all other games; three points.

"[But] in the moment when Liverpool-United is not a special game anymore then something went really wrong, let me say it like this. Then it's like, 'Oh, Liverpool-United... who?' That would be really difficult and really sad because obviously I love football, I love the fuss we make of it, most of the time at least, and all these kinds of things.

"Then there's Liverpool-United; I want to see that, it has to be like that, otherwise football wouldn't work. Then we have absolutely no right to exist anymore... people need to know and want to know what both clubs are doing.

"That's why I have no problem with them particularly, but it's a big game and it always was in my life a big game since I am allowed or can watch it on television, it's always a big game. Thank God it's still one."