GERRARD: WE STILL HAVE TO BE PROFESSIONAL

Paul Eaton 03 April 2007

Steven Gerrard insists Liverpool can't yet look forward to the semi-finals of the Champions League despite a comfortable first leg quarter-final success in Eindhoven.

Goals from Gerrard, John Arne Riise and Peter Crouch have given Rafael Benitez's side a 3-0 lead to defend at Anfield next week, but despite the one-sided scoreline the captain insists there's still work to be done and he isn't yet entertaining the prospect of a last four clash with Chelsea or Valencia.

"We can't think about that just yet," he said. "There's still work to be done in this tie and we have to make sure we're professional at Anfield next week and finish the job off. There's still 90 minutes to play.

"If we do that then we can think about playing Chelsea or Valencia, but not yet.

"It was a good performance from us tonight. We were solid and hard to break down. Once we got the first goal we knew what we wanted to do and we did it well."

Crouch netted his second headed goal in the space of two games to give the Reds a three goal lead and he admits it was a better result than they were expecting.

"The idea was not to concede and try to score an away goal," he said. "To score three was better than we'd planned for.

"To win 3-0 away anywhere in Europe is a great result and we're all delighted."