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Every week, we speak to a Liverpool fan to get their views on the goings on at Anfield.

Neil Atkinson of the Anfield Wrap discusses the Reds this week - and he's in fine form.

If you're a doubter, rather than a believer, don't read on.

Southampton. Six goals. How do you begin to sum that up?

Neil Atkinson (NA): Mostly through noises rather than words. Which is difficult in this game. I think you need to allow your head to be blown off and I think it is time we all get excited. There is an ongoing thing around football where supporters try to calm one another down. Don't get carried away. You'll only be disappointed. Well I will get carried away thank you very much because I enjoy being carried away. We aren't football supporters to replicate day to day drudgery. We're football supporters to be happy and excited against the back drop of the drudgery.

So to sum up - football to carry you away. The best kind. The only kind that matters. Football to get your dander up. To set your soul ablaze.

Chelsea, Man City, Southampton. Which impressed you the most, and why?

NA: Chelsea a definite third in the list now. The other two were so very impressive in different ways - Manchester City because they are the best team in the country and then they were undressed and then they were kept at bay. Southampton though had Liverpool going behind to an early goal before surging away and being irrestistible. I will just allow myself to be equally impressed by both and take the ten goals.

IN PICS: Liverpool hit Southampton for six

Is there a slight worry all of these performances are coming away?

NA: This is what will define the season - working out a way to get the points on the board at home. A massive part of that is performances, performances scare sides into submitting before a ball has been kicked when they come to Anfield. But another part of that is line up and personnel and in Sturridge and Origi playing as a front two last night I do wonder if the manager was looking at something to help kick the door down against these packed defences that Anfield tends to encourage.

Klopp is building this plane while flying it and he may have been surprised at the way sides really have little interest in playing that much football at Anfield. And West Brom are next. So we will need to solve this. If we do then, well...next question:

There is a growing feeling this season could turn out special under Klopp. What are your expectations now?

NA: My expectations have no ceiling. But they also have no floor.

For Liverpool to achieve this season they need their squad to over-achieve but not hugely or outrageously over-achieve. They need to get seven and halves from lads who tend towards sevens, eight and a halves from lads who get an eight and so on and so forth. They just need to be that bit better than they are on paper, especially while so many sides are underperforming.

All that said, it might go wrong.

There should, though, be no conversations around top four. No one knows how many points you will need for the top four versus the top one. No one knows who the genuine rivals for fourth are at this stage. Instead there is a league which can be won, a side which look hungry and which looks like it is on a steep curve of improvement. Let's talk only about the title. Let's expect everything. Let's enjoy it regardless.

Newcastle away. There's no easy games, but is this an ideal fixture for the Reds right now?

NA: A yes and no answer. Newcastle and their supporters will definitely take a point from this one now and therefore it might be a little trickier than against a side that would want to play against the Reds. When both team and supporters can get behind that sort of goal of keeping it tight and nicking one then it makes it harder.

However Newcastle have been poor, very poor at times and if Liverpool score an early goal, that unity between team and support could fall apart quickly. Not every game is a first goal game - we saw that at both Southampton and Chelsea. But this one could well be. The first goal could be the difference between Liverpool winning handsomely or having to labour for ninety.

Any other business?

NA: Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.