Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes that the club are moving in the right direction, following a less than successful start to their Premier League campaign.

The Reds have endured their worst start to a domestic campaign in over a century, but are now beginning to put together a good sequence of results.

Rodgers’ men are now only four points adrift of the top four and the Northern Irishman feels this illustrates the developments being made:

"You're always striving to have more and be better but as I sit here today, having experienced the last six months, I'm quietly pleased with how it's evolving," he is quoted by The Independent.

"We're a long way off where I want us to be, of course, but we've shown we're making good progress.

"By all accounts Liverpool have had a disastrous start but we're four points off the top four and if we had a little bit more luck, we actually could be in there now.

"The great encouragement is we're only going to get better.

"I hope that we finish this year strongly. 2012 has been an emotional year for the football club, we want to finish it on a high.

"We can then go into the next six months and push on, because that's when you take care of business and in particular the last 10 games.

"If we can arrive in January in and around that top four then we can really put our foot to the floor, when the confidence will be improved even more and players will be aligned with what we're trying to achieve.

"I believe we can have a good second half of the season."