The bookmakers may still only rate them as 4th favourites behind Barca, Manchester United and Chelsea but the Liverpool skipper believes they could be left with egg on their face.

Steven G Said: “If you ask me about a fear factor in the Champions League, I think the other seven are the ones who are going to have concerns about coming up against us, don’t you? The way I look at it is that we’re going to have to play them sooner of later so it doesn’t matter if it’s now, the semi-finals or the final”.

“We are not running scared of anyone. We’ll take whoever we get and believe that we are going to go through”.

“If we could hand-pick an opponent then maybe we had want someone like Villarreal or Porto but, at this stage of the competition, there are no easy games. It may be a cliche but it’s true.

“Everyone who’s got to this stage has done well and believes in themselves. But we have shown the players, manager and fans we’re a force to be reckoned with when we pull it all together.”

Gerrard marked his 100th Euro appearance with a double against Real Madrid, leaving him level with Bayern’s Miroslav Klose as joint Champions League leading scorers on seven.

Gerrard added: “I honestly can’t remember us playing as well as we did in the first half of the Real game.

“I don’t just mean in the Champions League or in Europe I mean in any competition in all of the time I have been playing for Liverpool. I don’t think we have controlled a game like that from the very first minute, dictated it and bossed it that way before or for so long”.

“Playing like that, I don’t think there is a side in Europe that could have lived with us. We have played well against Arsenal, Juventus, Inter, Chelsea and whoever else, but that first-half performance against Madrid was better than them all. Maybe the results of some of those games were more important, like Milan in Istanbul, but in terms of pure control that was the best by a distance”.

“People are talking of Real being a bad team but they weren’t saying that the week before. The run of games they have been on in La Liga tells us they are a good team. If they looked poor at Anfield it’s because that is how we made them look. We destroyed them and made them look ordinary and we deserve credit for that rather than looking for other reasons.”

Things are certainly looking rosier for the Reds than at any stage of the season, with Fernando Torres also hitting peak form after a hamstring-dogged campaign. Torres gave United centre back pair Rio Ferdinand and especially Nemanja Vidic an absolute nightmare on Saturday to rekindle Anfield dreams of a first Premier League crown.

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“It’s been a fantastic week,” the Liverpool captain said. “I’m not sure if there’s been a better week in my Liverpool career. We’ve comfortably beaten Real Madrid at home and then gone to Old Trafford and comfortably beaten Manchester United.

“That performance was right up there at the very top of great Liverpool ones in the past because we have beaten the world and European champions”.

“We showed great character when we went a goal down and fought back. A lot of teams would have caved in.”

But while Liverpool’s biggest win over their nemeses from the other end of the M62 since 1936 has triggered joy unbound on Merseyside, it is also tinged with regret at what might have been had the likes of Stoke, Fulham and West Ham not been allowed to escape Anfield with a share of the spoils.

Gerrard added: “We’ve won at Stamford Bridge and Old Trafford and drawn at the Emirates.

“These results show we are good enough to win the league but it has been frustrating in other games where we have not been able to break teams down.”

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Liverpool came from behind at Old Trafford to re-ignite the Barclays Premier League title race with a stunning victory.

Cristiano Ronaldo put Manchester United in front from the penalty spot after Pepe Reina had brought down Park Ji-Sung on 23 minutes.

Fernando Torres bustled past Nemanja Vidic to level five minutes later and Steven Gerrard put the Merseysiders in front from the spot a minute before the break after he had been fouled by Patrice Evra.

Vidic was shown a straight red for a foul on Gerrard on 73 minutes and further punishment was inflicted as Fabio Aurelio curled home the free-kick.

Andrea Dossena lobbed Edwin van der Sar in the final minute to complete a magnificent victory and cut the lead on the champions to just four points.

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Steven Gerrard scored twice in his 100th European game to destroy Real Madrid in Champions League. Liverpool beat Real Madrid by 4-0.

The win marked Real Madrid’s biggest ever defeat in the competition, and sees the Reds advance to the quarter-finals.

“For the first 30 minutes we were awesome,”Gerrard told ITV.

“I think we got the job done in the first-half and the second-half was just about seeing it out and we managed to get another couple of goals and everyone is really pleased.

“The second half was about seeing it out and fortunately, we were able to score a couple more goals.”

Liverpool may be maddeningly inconsistent in the Barclays Premier League, but they remain formidable in Europe and no one will want to be paired with them.

Liverpool trail Premier League leaders Manchester United by seven points – and have played a game more – but could close the gap as they face their north-west rivals at Old Trafford on Sunday.

“First and foremost, it’s about enjoying tonight,” Gerrard said.

“We need to get some rest, get some treatment, then we can concentrate on Manchester United.

“It’s going to be a difficult game. They are a fantastic team, but we are confident after tonight and we know we can give it our best shot.”

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