European bid

          

  Liverpool have closed the gap on sixth-placed Everton in the Barclays Premier League to three points, and Gerrard said: For me, it (contract talks) is not a priority at the moment. The most important thing for me now is to move on to the West Ham game. I want to finish the season strong. I'm feeling good.He said: "I think if you say that you haven't got what you deserved, then there's an element of feeling sorry for yourself. We know what our problem is and it's inconsistency. In the majority of games we've played well enough to be higher than where we are in the league.He continued: "Of course, I'm happy that the club are mentioning new contracts, but it's not important at the moment. What we need to do is put pressure on for that European place. A lot of the teams above us need to play each other. We're hoping there's a few slips ups above us and we can capitalise but it's important that we take maximum points.But when you look at performances like Southampton, Villa at home, West Brom away, Arsenal at home, there's a handful of games in there where this team hasn't turned up.Every game is a cup final now. That's what the manager said after the game. It's a little small short season left now, if you like. We just need to play to our maximum every game because if we don't, like we didn't at Southampton, we know we'll be punished. We need the level of performance at Villa to continue.