Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain claims Liverpool’s winning mentality is unlike anything else he has experienced.
Oxlade-Chamberlain lifted three FA Cups in four seasons during a six-year spell with Arsenal prior to making his £40 million switch to Anfield in summer 2017.
But the England international believes the mindset created by Jurgen Klopp eclipses anything he encountered in that lengthy spell at the Emirates Stadium.
The Reds have dropped just two points from their opening 14 Premier League games while also opening up a commanding eight-point lead at the summit.
And Oxlade-Chamberlain insists that the pressure of ending a 30-year domestic drought has done little to impact on the European champions’ confidence levels.
He said: “The mindset that I’m in when we go into a game is that I’m going into it with the mindset that we’re going to win. I think that’s how we all feel.
“We’re going into the games expecting ourselves to win and anything else we’re disappointed with.
“There’s times in my career where I definitely haven’t gone into all games 100 per cent confident that the team’s going to come away winning.
“But with this team, I have that sort of belief in us. If we’re on our A-game that’s how I think we should come out of games.
“Obviously it might not happen every time but when you’re going into games with that sort of mindset and belief it simplifies everything else.
“You go in there to win, you know what you need to do to win. There’ll be some things you can’t control, that happen with the opposition or little mistakes here and there but the overall mindset is we’re going to win.
“Anthing else that happens in and around that will happen and it is what it is.”
Such has been Liverpool’s early-season dominance in the Premier League title race that pundits are already hailing them as champions in all but name.
But Oxlade-Chamberlain says the Anfield dressing room is not concerned by such premature proclamations and remains focused solely on their upcoming games.
“I don’t live under a rock so I hear what people say and the predictions that people make,” he added.
“You can’t not take notice of other results that are going on around you and the table from time to time. It’s part and parcel. It’s always been like that.
“When Man City were out in front for a while a couple of seasons ago they would’ve had all of these sort of things to come up against.
“You’ve got to just keep going out and churning out results. That’s up to us to keep that going. There might be a time where results don’t go so well and people maybe close the gap a little bit.
“We’ve got to be also ready for those moments mentally as a team to just keep going and see what happens.
“I hate saying the old cliche of it’s one game at a time but the manager goes in with the mindset of each game is the most important one because we’ve got nothing else to be doing for the next 90 minutes.
“That’s the sort of approach that we have and if we do that more times than not we should come away with good results.”