Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp not thinking about title charge

Jurgen Klopp has again played down talk
Liverpool could be title contenders.
Liverpool have been building momentum under
Klopp, winning seven of their last eight games in
all competitions, including the 4-1 win at
Manchester City on Nov. 21 and this week's 6-1
demolition of Southampton in the Capital One
Cup.
The Reds were 10th in the table when Klopp
replaced Brendan Rodgers on Oct. 8 and have
now moved up to sixth, six points behind table-
topping City and Leicester.
But while the improvement in results and
performances has raised optimism that the club
could be realistic challengers this season, the
former Borussia Dortmund boss said: "I don't
think about this.
"People can talk about this but we just have to
play football. We don't have any ideas yet about
where we can get to -- it's a fantastic football club
and everyone here loves working at this club and
everything is really good.
"But you need to have luck with injuries to be
challenging, so we can't get carried away and
look too far forward -- we are only in sixth place.
"That is all we look at and that is what football is
all about. We know we can get better, and we
know there is still a long way to go."
Klopp said it was important that the players
continue to follow his tactical instructions.
"We will try to play very emotional football," he
said. "All the world is talking about ball
possession, but we have to have a plan for when
we have the ball and when we don't.
"They have to listen to what I say, that is very
important because I believe it is better to have 11
players do the same thing wrong than everybody
doing what they want.
"We have to do it one way and that is my way.
Now we cannot talk about football philosophy and
ball possession and playing like Barcelona or
whoever. No, this team needs to create its own
style."