The England midfielder made the claim after the Blues had added the Premier League title to the League Cup they won earlier in the season after beating Rafael Benitez's men.

Meanwhile the man often ranked alongside Lampard as the best midfielder in England, his international team-mate and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, has labelled the match the "biggest game of my life".

The tie is evenly poised after a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge but Lampard, who scored both goals as Chelsea wrapped up the Premier-ship in a 2-0 win away to Bolton on Saturday, said the London club's first top-flight title in 50 years was the ideal way to prepare for a visit to Anfield.

"If going there as champions doesn't fill you with confidence, then nothing will," said the England midfielder. "So we'll have to save our energy now, relax a bit and look forward to that game."

Chelsea have injury concerns over Damien Duff and Arjen Robben but Lampard, who has played 54 games so far this season just keeps going.

With the equally impressive Chelsea captain John Terry, the heart of the Blues defence, Lampard has given Jose Mourinho's expensively-assembled multi-national side a solid English core.

"He could play 100 games in a season," said Bolton manager Sam Allardyce of Lampard. "At the moment, he has to be one of the best players in the world."

Chelsea's Portuguese boss Jose Mourinho is looking to win the Champions League in successive seasons with different clubs after guiding Porto to European club football's biggest prize.

The Londoners have won just two major European trophies in their 100-year history - the 1971 and 1998 Cup Winners' Cup.

Liverpool, by contrast, have cabinets full of silverware from the continent with four European Cups alone while as recently as 2000-01 they lifted their third UEFA Cup.

Under Benitez they have shown a marked ability to raise their game come a European night, the frustrating downside for their fans being their repeated failure to win in the Premiership in the match immediately following a Champions League tie.

The pattern was maintained in a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough on Saturday which came hot on the heels of their highly creditable display in west London.

That result left them three points behind Everton in the race for the fourth place which would seemingly guarantee them Champions League football next season.

However, UEFA president Lennart Johansson suggested Sunday that the Reds, were they to win the Champions League, might yet be able to defend the title next season regardless of their Premier-ship position.

And Gerrard, whose stunning strike helped salvage a point against Boro, believes his side can prolong the administrators' collective headache for a while longer yet by upsetting the odds and going through to the May 25 final in Istanbul.

"This second leg is without doubt the biggest game of my life and I am sure it's the same for every other player here," he said.

"I think it has surprised everyone, but we are not in it just to make the numbers up. We are in it to win it so we are going to keep fighting."

Liverpool will be without the suspended Xabi Alonso following his yellow card for a first leg foul on Eidur Gudjohnsen.