Andy Robertson admits he has been thrust into a more prominent leadership role this season due to Liverpool's injury crisis.
The Reds are currently without their captain Jordan Henderson, who underwent groin surgery last month, and vice-captain James Milner has suffered a number injuries.
Virgil van Dijk is third in line for the armband but has been missing since October, when he suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in the Merseyside derby.
Other key members of the squad including Joe Gomez and Joel Matip are also sidelined for the long term, and Robertson has been one of very few Liverpool players to avoid injury this season.
The 27-year-old left-back has no doubt he has had to take on more leadership duties in the absence of other key personnel.
"It's been a different season," Robertson - who serves as Scotland's captain - told Sky Sports . "I like the responsibility, I have always had that responsibility at Liverpool.
"But maybe a bit more has been put on me this season with the likes of Virgil being out, Henderson being out, Gomez being out, Matip being out."
Robertson also issued a rallying cry to his Liverpool teammates, urging them to put their "bad turn" behind them to close the five-point gap on the top four and progress in the Champions League.
He added: "Unfortunately, we have not had as good a season as we probably thought but there's still time to fix it, there's still time to make it a bit better.
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"We believe that we should be higher up the table and competing which we were doing before Christmas. We just took a bad turn but hopefully, we have seen the back of that now.
"Hopefully we can show the Liverpool of old and we can keep kicking on and the season might not be all bad come the end of it. There's still a long way to go.
"We're used to juggling two competitions. We have got to go on all fronts. We need to go for both [top four and Champions League] - we need to get up the league as high as possible - we need to put a run together.
"We have struggled for consistency this season. You don't make the top four unless you put six, seven, eight results together and that's what we need at the end of the season."
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