Steven Gerrard: 'I'd take fourth now'

Steven Gerrard has said that he would settle for a fourth-placed finish in the Premier League this season.

Liverpool have been challenging at the top of the table for much of the campaign so far, but a couple of defeats over the festive period have seen them slip to fourth.

The captain told Sky Sports News: "If you offered me fourth spot now, yes [I would take it]. The reason I would take it is we've been out of the Champions League for so long, the chance to get Champions League football back here at Anfield, I'd snap your hands off.

"[Winning the Premier League] scares me really. I don't know how I'd handle myself. When I won the Champions League, for the week after, talk about being on cloud nine, all your cliches, it's even better than that.

"If I could add a Premier League title to my collection it would probably be the best day of my life besides my kids being born, I think it would almost top the Champions League because it's the one I haven't got."

Liverpool have not finished in the top four and clinched a Champions League spot since coming second in the league in the 2008-09 season.