Jurgen Klopp has highlighted Liverpool’s ‘biggest enemy’ in the title race.
Klopp’s side will bid to reclaim the Premier League’s top spot when they entertain Sheffield United on Thursday before a trip to Manchester United.
The visitors travel to Anfield mired at the foot of the table and with the top flight’s most number of goals conceded this season, having shipped 77.
But Klopp insists that the Reds cannot afford to take Chris Wilder’s charges for granted despite the likelihood of goal difference factoring into the title race.
He said: “I want to win the game first – the result I’m not bothered about at the moment.
“Sheffield are in their best spell probably in the last two games and they’ve been a bit unlucky with the results maybe. They have an idea.
“I remember [in Wilder’s first game back as manager] them having counter-attacking chances on the left wing against us.
“That is how they will set it up, with the two strikers up front, a partnership [Ben Brereton Diaz and Oli McBurnie] which works together, they both scored in the last game, and these things will be tricky.
“The biggest enemy is the wrong attitude. If we would show that, and a big part of that is thinking who scores how many goals.
“And that will not happen.”
The Liverpool manager exiects to have Andy Robertson and Curtis Jones back in contention with the latter overcoming an ankle injury in February.