Mohamed Salah 'optimistic' and 'excited' that Liverpool can still clinch quadruple

Merseyside club take on Wolves in Premier League on Sunday while title rivals Man City face Aston Villa - and former Reds captain Gerrard

Liverpool players celebrate after Joel Matip's winner in their 2-1 victory at Southampton at St Mary's Stadium on May 17. Getty

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp applauds his players. Reuters

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Nathan Redmond celebrates scoring their first goal with Mohamed Elyounoussi and Kyle Walker-Peters. Reuters

Liverpool's Takumi Minamino celebrates after levelling the scores at 1-1. Reuters

Takumi Minamino of Liverpool scores against Southampton. Getty

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Liverpool players celebrate after Joel Matip's goal put them ahead. AP

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Mohamed Salah insists Liverpool remain 'optimistic' about the prospect of the team sealing a historic quadruple this season.

The Premier League campaign reaches a climax on Sunday with Liverpool knowing they must beat Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield and hope Manchester City do not win at home to Aston Villa if they want to beat Pep Guardiola's team to the title.

They have already won the League Cup and FA Cup – both via penalty shoot-out wins over Chelsea – and take on Real Madrid in the Champions League final next weekend.

“I wish City lose or draw, and we can win the league,” Salah told beIN Sports on Friday.

“We talk to each other [as a team], and everyone is excited. This situation happened two years ago, and they won the league. We are all optimistic, and this is what is in your hands – you must win your match, and then you see what happens.”

Liverpool face record 13-times European champions Real Madrid in the Champions League final in Paris next Saturday and Salah raised eyebrows when he posted on social media that they “have a score to settle” with the Spanish giants.

Salah left the field in tears in the final four years ago after a heavy fall under a challenge by Sergio Ramos, with Real going on to win the game 3-1.

“When [I said] I wish we could face Real Madrid, this was as if I said something wrong about them,” Salah added.

“I am talking about the strongest team in Champions League history, and I said that because of what happened before.

“The match will be difficult, and this team has won almost against all the strong teams. [But] I am very excited about the final and I hope we can win it.”

Meanwhile, Reds manager Jurgen Klopp has said he has banished all thoughts of a dramatic finish to the season that sees the Reds take the title with a little help from former captain Steven Gerrard, who now manages City's opponents Villa on Sunday.

The Premier League was the only winner's medal missing from former England midfielder Gerrard's illustrious career at Anfield.

And while Klopp joked Friday he would have liked to see Gerrard still on the pitch, the German insisted he had not given much thought to all of Sunday's possible scenarios.

“I can understand these kind of situations only by thinking myself in that role,” he said.

“If I would play a game and could help [Borussia] Dortmund or Mainz that would be, for me, an extra motivation – but I don't play.

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“And Stevie doesn't play. That is a shame, much more of a shame that Stevie is not playing than I am not playing.”

Klopp added: “We are all human beings. Stevie will take it 100 per cent serious, I am sure, without me calling him or whatever, I don't have to – the rest of the club probably already did it but I didn't.

“We play to win and Aston Villa play to win. It [Etihad] is a difficult place to go, if you go there and don't play 100 per cent you get five or six [goals scored against you] and if you are fully there you have a chance to get a result.

“But this is the game I am not concerned about, not thinking about, at all. Of all the things we speak about it is completely disrespectful to Wolves as they will do exactly the same.

“They don't want to come here and be part of our celebrations. They come here and want to get three points, definitely. We have to be ready for this game not the other one.”