Gerard Houllier dedicated tonight's 1-0 victory over Chelsea to the fans of the club, the chairman and Rick Parry.
A Bruno Cheyrou goal created by Emile Heskey was enough so secure three vital Premiership points and to ease the pressure a little from the Liverpool manager.
"We had a difficult week as you know so it was an ideal opportunity for the players to respond and to show the criticics wrong," said the boss.
"We are very united. We sometimes struggle but we've got a good team spirit but I would say it was a great game to show not only the talent but the togetherness and determination of the team.
"We know that every game is important to what we want to achieve this season. I'm pleased that some of the players who are not regular players contributed to the success and
this is a good omen for the future.
"It comes at a good time after a difficult week but the atmosphere in the camp was wonderful and this victory I would like to dedicate to the fans first, the fans that were here and all the fans of Liverpool and to the chairman and Rick Parry because they have been very supportive to the boys.
"I would say that we are not happy with the results this season but we also know why. We will just keep sticking together and I'm sure we'll get better and better in 2004.
"Beating Chelsea here is always a performance and a great achievement. They didn't have a lot of chances although we had to survive the first half and then the second half after the goalkeeper was injured and after the sending off of Dioufy, we showed character and the mental strength that is needed to compete at the top level."
Talking about the sending off of El-Hadji Diouf, Houllier said: "It was a wrong decision but I am sure that when the linesman sees it he will understand why I'm saying that.
"There's no anomosity, I just think he got it wrong. I didn't see it from where I was but obviously the video evidence shows that there was nothing malicious and that the two players got practically tied up with a lace but there was no trip."
So is there now a goalkeeping crisis at the club following the injury to Jerzy Dudek?
"Well we do have a goalkeeping problem if Jerzy can not be fit for the next game but the young boy Patrice Luzi did extremely well and if he has to he will fill in the position very well because he made a couple of good saves at the end."
4th place for the Reds?
"We know the number of wins we need to get there and we'll keep going."
