Lee sets sights on top spot
14 Jul 2008 - 08:57:55
Assistant manager Sammy Lee believes Liverpool can not only catch the Premier League's top three but overtake them in the race to be crowned England's number one club.
The Reds finished a distant fourth in last season's title race after trailing eventual champions and bitter rivals Manchester United by 11 points.
This year the Merseyside club are again expected to challenge United, Chelsea and Arsenal for Premier League bragging rights and Rafael Benitez's newly-installed number two is confident the Reds can first close the gap and then move ahead of their rivals.
Former player and coach Lee's return to Anfield as part of a new-look backroom staff following a brief spell as Bolton Wanderers manager was confirmed earlier in the summer.
"They are three very good teams," he told the club's official website.
"Only results will prove whether I'm right or wrong, but I feel that we need to be looking to be not just as good as, but better than those three.
"We just need that little stroke of luck, that little attention to detail, and you never know.
"We are not that far away and I feel we have proven on many occasions over the past four or five years that we can be better than them. Not as good as - but better.
"Only time will tell, but what I will say is that everyone is striving and working hard to try and make sure that we can close that gap and overhaul it."
