Steven Gerrard Against Quotations

It's very dangerous to bet against Liverpool, especially when our backs are to the wall,

We had a lot of young players. I don't really think we were 100 percent confident going into it that we could go all the way. Everything was against us - the climate, it was a long journey, maybe the age of the squad and the experience in the squad wasn't ready.

We are getting increasingly good results against the top sides and emerging as challengers to Chelsea. We feel we are significantly improving in all departments.

We are getting good results against the top sides and not slipping up against the smaller ones. We are emerging as challengers for the title. There is still a big gap to reduce but, as the season goes on and we keep getting the results, our confidence will get bigger and bigger.

We slipped up badly against Northern Ireland and this group of players wants to put a run of winning games together. We want to win this group. We are a bunch of winners and want to finish first.

You've got to give him credit for his all-round performance against Croatia, he ran himself into the ground and was involved in two goals,