Andy Robertson refuses to accept Liverpool will win the Premier League just yet.
Jurgen Klopp’s side extended their lead at the summit with Sunday’s 2-0 win over Manchester United while Leicester and Manchester City dropped points.
Should the Reds win their game in-hand over West Ham in late January, the gulf will stretch to 19 points as they zone in on a first title in 30 years.
Conceivably, the Anfield outfit could clinch the title from reigning champions Manchester City when the pair face off at the Etihad Stadium on April 4.
But Robertson insists the Liverpool dressing room is still not taking anything for granted until it is officially confirmed that they have won the title.
He said: “We would obviously love to say yes – but no.
“You are playing against your rivals who you’ve had great battles with over the years and the fans probably want to rub it in a bit. But we’re not getting carried away.
“Until the champions sign is above our heads we don’t believe anything. Yes the lead is 16 points but we know how tough it gets.
“We’ve beaten United and in three days’ time we go away to Wolves, who are flying, and it’s an incredibly tough game.
“We know how hard this league is and how the table can change in a couple of weeks so it’s up to us to stay 100 per cent focused and not allow that to happen.
“If we do then we keep ticking off the games and we hopefully get closer and closer. We can believe once the final whistle of that game goes.”
Liverpool have the potential to finish this season unbeaten, with only United taking points off them in October’s corresponding fixture at Old Trafford.
Since losing to City at the start of 2019, they have accumulated a 39-game run in the Premier League that could eclipse Arsenal’s 49-match record.
However Robertson continues to shun suggestions the European champions can become ‘invincibles’ and remains focused on immediate priorities.
“We don’t think about that. We go into every game to win,” admitted the defender.
“For us that is the aim, because we don’t want to get beat and drop points, but we’ve said it many a time we work game-to-game and it’s worked well for us so why would we change that now?
“Looking too far and thinking can we go unbeaten is pointless.
“We’ll just focus on Wolves and we go into a tough game trying to get the legs fresh, try and put in a similar performance and try to be more clinical.
“Fingers-crossed we can do that and then the games start getting less and less and then hopefully we can be champions, but we’re not thinking about that.
“The last 39 games have been incredible but for us it is unfortunate it has not been in one season, it has been across two.
“We keep going, we are on a good run just now, we are confidence, seven clean sheets on the bounce is massive and long may that continue.
“We will let other people say that (about dropping points) but I don’t think anyone in that dressing room is believing that just yet and I think we can see that with every performance we are putting in.”