"If we want to fight for the league then you have to try to get all the points available at home," said Mascherano.
"We need to do all the right things if we are going to do that but we have taken six points from our first two home games in the league so we must be doing okay.
"I don't know what other teams think when they come to Anfield but we know that we have our supporters behind us and we need to play as well as possible for them."