Fabio Aurelio has declared it would be a greater achievement to win the league title with Liverpool than it was to gain La Liga glory under Rafael Benitez with Valencia.

"We are in a really strong position at the moment and we have to keep it going," he said.

"We have started well and now the challenge is to sustain it. It's difficult to play for nine months of a season in different competitions at such a high level, but we have the squad to do it with at least two players competing for every position.

"This is the best squad I've been part of at Liverpool. The relationship between the players is good and everyone knows they really have to fight for their place.

"We are all working as hard as we can in every training session to do the best possible job and that shows the mentality within the squad is right.

"It's similar to when we were at Valencia in that we had been waiting so long to win the title and I can definitely see the same qualities in this team as we had back then."