Liverpool star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain admits that last season's disappointment spurred them on to even greater heights this term.

While the Reds won the Champions League and finished on 97 points in the Premier League, they lost the league title to Manchester City.

But they came back even stronger, only dropping points in two games in the Premier League this term before the COVID-19 break.

And Chamberlain admits such consistency has a lot to do with 97 points not being good enough last term.

The England international told the Reds' official website on being denied a title triumph by City: "You can look at it two ways. You can look at it in the sense of, how do you get 97 points and finish off second best? That, mentally for the lads, I think was a big challenge. You almost can't get a more perfect season.

"You might have, you know, the season before City obviously got 100 points. So we're talking one game, one win difference – you expect to win with that. So, I think first of all it was sort of another heightened respect for Man City as a team, to go 100 points and then 98 back to back, that takes a lot of doing.

"Mentally, as a group of players, I think that's maybe where we thought, 'Alright, 97 points not good enough' and I remember the manager saying we've got to do more. Simple as that.

"He was adamant that's not enough, you've got to do more, and I think it's a credit to us in what we've done so far this season, the boys are doing more and obviously this is a strange time because you talk about momentum and that's the same for every team at the minute, but it's not finished yet. We're close but we're not finished yet, but up to this point we are doing more.

"At the minute we've been doing that but whenever we're able to kick off again we've got a job to finish so we can't get carried away yet."