Gerrard optimistic

Last updated : 11 December 2007 By Adam Bryant
Victory would secure a place in the knockout stages of the Champions League, and the Liverpool skipper believes the Reds won't slip up.

"If you'd told me five minutes after the final whistle against Marseille at Anfield we would go into the last game knowing a win would secure our qualification, I would have bitten your hand off," he said.

"We're a different side and a lot more confident than the one which lost to Marseille at home.

"Everyone remembers Olympiakos, so our experiences in the past will help. The pressure will be on Marseille as much as us this time.

"We know we're always expected to go through to the knockout stage, but after they beat us at Anfield and we lost in Turkey, we weren't favourites to qualify."