Arbeloa: Liverpool will reach the Champions League knockout stages

He said: “We will make it if we win the last two games and I think that we will succeed.

“The team is focused on the European Cup and to win those games like if they were finals.

“We now have to play Porto at home and we’ll have to show the same spirit as we did this week.”

He added: “The game was incredible.

“I never played and won a European game with such a score. I think we could even have scored more goals.

“Besiktas are not bad opponents – they won against us in Istanbul but at Anfield we didn’t let them breathe and we scored an early goal. It was the key to the game.

“It’s a big boost for the team after spending weeks drawing without scoring a lot of goals.

“The qualification for the next round is not out of our hands yet.”