Houllier looks forward to Sunday

"The game is to us, as all games are now, is a Premiership final," he said in the pre-match press conference.

"We are now leading the Premiership and we want to keep that position. You can imagine the determination and resolve that we want to put into this game.

"We are in the position where every team at the moment in the Premiership would like to be and if we are there we deserve it.

"It's because we had a good run of 12 games unbeaten, which equals the record of Arsenal and other teams before us.

"Let's keep it going."