Liverpool's demand of "100 per cent attitude" is behind the Reds' charge for a first Premier League title, according to assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders.
Jurgen Klopp's side sit second on goal difference with a game in hand on champions Manchester City at the top of the table after their best-ever start to a season.
With a number of crucial matches on the horizon Klopp has elected to take his squad away to Marbella for the week for a warm weather training camp.
And speaking from Spain Lijnders has explained the work behind the side's near-relentless run so far this term.
"Everything starts and finishes with the passion and ambition of the team. Everything about this team is glued by togetherness and by character," he told the club's official website.
"We know if we give everything, every day, then we can beat probably every team, or at least we can create a lot of problems against them. The boys know that and that’s the only way to prove [it]. 90 per cent of the three points are made in the week before the game, we believe in this.
"Probably we only have one rule: that’s always 100 per cent attitude.
"It all comes together, of course, but it starts with the boys having this passion to be better and better, not just individually but as a group. That drives our development and it’s a big plus for them."
Back-to-back draws at the turn of the month had some onlookers suggesting the Reds were beginning to feel the pressure of leading the chasing pack.
But to the contrary Lijnders says there's no place they'd rather be.
"I think the most important thing is that we feel excited, that we don’t feel pressure, that we did a lot of hard work and that we prepared ourselves for these moments," added Lijnders.
"It is a crucial period where we have to keep searching for the next step – and if we keep focusing on ourselves, on how we want to play, how we want to develop, how we want to put each team under pressure, then the results will come by themselves. That’s important.
"It’s a big chance, nothing more. We want to deserve it.
"I feel that the team is ready to play against whatever team, wherever, and that we can create problems [for the opposition] because of this.
"We need to use training the best we can, we have to really be prepared for the games in the same manner. That’s it. I am pretty convinced we will find solutions again and again."
