Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool's Premier League title fate is in their own hands - but says "it's still pretty slippery".
Manchester City's goalless draw at Crystal Palace on Monday night means the Reds can close the gap on the league leaders to just one point with victory at Arsenal on Wednesday evening.
The top two go head-to-head at the Etihad on Sunday, April 10 and while Klopp accepts his side no longer have to hope for dropped points elsewhere, he says the club's hopes of a 20th league title are still hanging perilously with 10 games left to play.
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"Win every game, we win the league? That's actually the best news," the Liverpool boss said. "The only problem is the word 'if' is wonderful information.
"For the moment, it is like this but let's see what result we get Wednesday night and then we talk new and you all told me last time: 'ah, it's over now', and all this so, yes, we try to win all of them.
"It is really difficult, but we try. It is in our hands. I am sure you can say it is in our hands but it's still pretty slippery."
Liverpool have conceded just two goals during an eight-game winning streak in the league and have shipped just four goals since they were beaten by Leicester City shortly before the turn of the year.
Klopp says the return to fitness of key defenders such as Joel Matip and Virgil van Dijk has helped enormously after a pre-season schedule that helped re-tune the defence as a unit.
He added: "We defend as a unit better than we did. So of course it's a little bit like this after pre-season and after the season we had, we gained confidence, gained a feeling for each other again game by game.
"We were always a pretty good defensive team but we had our moments where we conceded more or less out of the blue. It is pretty rare we come under fire and they shoot 20 times and score four.
"So we had to learn again to deal with the situation being dominant in the team but [other teams] want to have counter-attacks, so how can we set up our protection?
"Unfortunately it is not always like riding a bike, you can lose it over the summer, especially with last year when half of our defence didn't play for ages.
"So now we are more or less ourselves and everyone knows and feels it again how important that is. We need a clear commitment for defending first. That is what we have to do just to make sure we don't have to score six goals to win a football game and that is it."
