That's what Everton's dressing room thinks about the challenge of the Premier League title in Liverpool

Michael Keane admits that no Everton player wants to win the Premier League this season, but adds that the sight of the Reds in pursuit of a double in the league and doubles in the Champions League has not complicated the lives of underperforming players of Everton.

The Blues started the campaign with the goal of placing in the top six, hoping to be in the top four.

But those dreams disappeared in the first half of the incoherent campaign and a disappointing month of December.

Keane said, "Maybe for fans, it's harder, but as players, I think we need to focus on ourselves.

"We do not mind day-to-day, week after week, what Liverpool does. Obviously, it's important for the fans and we do not want Liverpool to win the league as much as the fans, but that does not affect how we do our business and how let's play the games.

"So I would not say it affected us on the ground. But obviously, our fans do not want them to win the championship. "

Everton got the kind of results he was hoping to get more regularly in pre-season by beating the Champions League in pursuit of Chelsea at Goodison Park.

When asked if this performance was the blueprint for the rest of the campaign, Keane added, "The second half is yes! not the first period where we could have scored two goals.

"We went out, but in the second half, we were a completely different team and that's what we have to do from the start.

"Before Newcastle, we felt like we were shooting a corner. We beat Cardiff and got a good point against Liverpool, and then played very well in Newcastle for an hour.

"We let that go, but we kind of got confidence in our game. Since then, we've beaten Chelsea and West Ham, which are not easy games at all.

"We feel like in a good position by the minute. But we can not be complacent. We must begin. As I said, we have to play like West Ham for the full match. "

The atmosphere at Goodison Park has been significantly improved in the last two games of the Blues – an atmosphere full of octane: see rival rivals in Liverpool, then beat Chelsea.

"That's what Goodison has always done," added Keane. "It was coming to play here. We want to go back to that. We want teams to come here knowing that they are going to be in a very difficult game and that we are going to be hard to beat.

"We have three home games left and we want to try to win them all. We know we have Arsenal and we know we have United, which are really tough games against tough opponents, but we are confident that we can win those games. "