Houllier said: "We do well away from home and we know if we win at Stamford Bridge we qualify. My players like cup finals, we win them, so we can win this last game.
"We have come back from a period of despair, 10 games ago nobody would have thought we would be in this position, still going for it. We know that if we win at Chelsea, that's enough to qualify.
"Few people would have predicted this a couple of months ago. We'd lost at Birmingham and knew we needed to win virtually everything to get into the Champions League.
"Well, we are on seven wins in nine so we are pretty close. I trust my team, they have the knowledge of how to play in run-ins like this."
