Rickie Lambert says the players are desperate to bring silverware to Liverpool.
The Reds meet Besiktas in the Europa League tonight.
"We'd been waiting for so many years to get into the Champions League so we were desperate to stay in it," Lambert told the Liverpool Echo.
"But we weren't playing well when the Champions League was there. If we'd just managed to sneak through, who knows what we would have been able to do now.
"Like I knew we were going to, we're playing at our best again now. We're in the Europa League and it's something that we'll be trying to win.
"You come into it at a good stage. I know it's not the Champions League but it's still a great competition."
