You'll have plenty to celebrate when you subscribe to the Liverpool FC newsletter Sign me up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Simon Mignolet says Liverpool FC are top of the table because the players are so demanding of each other.

The Reds moved into pole position in the Premier League with just six games to go following Sunday's 4-0 thumping of Tottenham Hotspur.

Mignolet says standards are high at Anfield and an ultra-professional approach is behind their success this season.

And that mindset means the Belgium goalkeeper is refusing to get carried away with talk of winning the title.

The visits of Manchester City and Chelsea later this month are seen as crunch games in the race for the championship but Mignolet is only concerned about Sunday's game with West Ham United.

"Everyone works for each other, everyone is demanding of each other which is always important if you want to win games," said Mignolet.

"It is not about being 'nicey nicey' with each other, it is about making sure we do the things right individually and as a group.

"We have some characters in the dressing room who are always there to make sure we train in a perfect manner.

"It is not only the players who are playing but also those on the bench and the guys who are not playing.

“They are as happy as the guys on the pitch and sometimes that is more important than any single individual who scores the goals."

He added: "The next game is West Ham and straight after the Tottenham win we were speaking about that game next Sunday.

"There is no point in looking beyond that. We did our jobs against Tottenham and from Monday onwards there is only one thing in our minds and that is to prepare ourselves for the game against West Ham."

Liverpool headed into the Spurs game knowing that a win would send them top of the pile for the first time since Christmas after Chelsea lost at Crystal Palace.

But Mignolet insists the Reds are only focused on themselves.

"We knew what happened on Saturday with the results coming in but in all fairness it doesn't make any difference," he added.

"You just win your own game and look at your own performance. It is not about the other teams around us, it is more about what we have to do than be looking over our shoulder.

"We don't really think what the opponents have to do, we think about what we have to do and think about our jobs. That is far more important for us as a team.

"Against Spurs the early goal helped a lot and it is about keeping the ball and making sure they can't get back into the game.

“Against Sunderland we conceded a goal and then it got nervy in the last 15 minutes but we saw the game through and sometimes that is even more important than games when it goes easy.

“You can take positives and negatives from every game. We will look back at Tottenham and see what we can learn from it and what we can do better and move on to West Ham where we will again try to do our best. We look at every game as a single thing."