Manager Graeme Souness may be too cautious to discuss Liverpool's title prospects but the Kop faithful need no further convincing after the Anfield defeat of Arsenal.
"Now you have got to believe us we're going to win the league," they roared as Liverpool seized an opportunity to show a nationwide television audience their growing title pedigree.
Liverpool's victory over the current champions was their fifth in succession, extended an unbeaten run to 12 matches and cut the gap behind leaders Manchester United to eight points.
Few would bet against a revived Liverpool featuring in the title race to the end of the season now, least of all Arsenal who failed to press home their first half advantage and in the end were well beaten by a Jan Molby penalty and a Ray Houghton chip.
Arsenal manager George Graham gave 18-year-old Ray Parlour his debut but the Romford-born
youngster, of whom so much is expected at Highbury, marred an outstanding performance with a momentary aberration a minute before half- time.
When Ronnie Rosenthal evaded challenges from Nigel Winterburn and substitute Steve Bould, Parlour panicked. His rash and illegal challenge was punished by Molby who sent the resulting spot-kick into the roof of the net.
It was rough justice for Arsenal who had created the better first-half chances but three magnificent saves by Bruce Grobbelaar kept them out. He knocked away a close-range Paul Merson effort with his left hand after a delicate David Rocastle pass split the Liverpool defence, then plunged to his right to gab an Ian Wright header on his goal-line.
Minutes later Grobbelaar came racing from his goal to deny Wright with a sliding tackle and watched with relief as Jimmy Carter's shot from the rebound sliced wide off his shin.
But Molby's penalty totally changed the flow of the game. The second half was all Liverpool, with Rosenthal twice going close and Dean Saunders hitting the outside of a post before Houghton scampered clear to chip a Steve Nicol pass over the diving Seaman.
It was an unhappy night for Liverpool's former Arsenal midfielder Michael Thomas who was booked for a foul on Alan Smith and later substituted.
Arsenal had only themselves to blame for leaving Anfield empty-handed but they were not helped by losing defender David O'Leary with a leg injury after only 20 minutes.
Arsenal manager George Graham dismissed Liverpool's title prospects.
Asked about the possibility of Liverpool capturing a 19th league championship with a late run, Graham insisted the title would be disputed between Manchester United and Leeds.
He said: "Liverpool are third in the table and they will have a role to play in what happens in the league. But I don't think there will be much change in the top two."
Liverpool manager Graeme Souness commented: "Football is all about opinions. I don't want to talk about us in connection to the championship. I am happy if people go on talking about Leeds and Manchester United. We were lucky to go in against Arsenal at half-time with a lead when we should have been a goal behind. But our second-half performance was good enough to win any game on its own," Souness added.
Graham admitted he could sense the frustration of his players as they failed to end a depressing sequence of results. He said: "We dominated the first half and had chances, but you must put them away at a place like Anfield. At half-time Liverpool must have felt they could only get better after the first-half drubbing they received. The penalty just before the break lifted them. I felt sorry for my players. I could see how frustrated they were at half-time when they didn't deserve to be behind."
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