Monday 31 March 2014 14:43, UK
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard insisted "we've won nothing yet" after helping his side to a 2-1 win over Sunderland.
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers felt his side got their rewards for showing patience. "It was always going to be really difficult. There's a perception that we're always going to score four or five every game," he said. "There was a block of eight which was hard for us to penetrate. "We had to be patient and then our quality came through. Our work rate was outstanding and we scored two excellent goals. "We made the point that we had to show patience." Asked if it was a win that marked them out as possible champions, Rodgers said: "Certainly it's a win that good teams grind out. "We're one point behind and this is it. We will recover for the weekend." Sunderland boss Gus Poyet was pleased that his side showed enough to suggest their season remains alive. "I think we can take a lot because everything was set for a four, five, six, seven-nil, which of course we didn't like," he said. "The feeling of seeing this crowd quite at the end and then celebrating at the end shows it wasn't an easy game for Liverpool. "The thing (relegation) is killing me. We can play the way we can today but cannot beat the teams at the bottom. "We need goals, that's the key also. We are not happy because we lost but people did not expect us to play like that."
