We should be aiming for first. That's the goal why not shoot for it. Pardon the pun. A big part of what Mr Shankly did was make the players believe they were playing for the best team in the world. They were and they still are. If you are a Liverpool player you want 1st place, end of story.
Hey who this time last year would have believed we could have gone all the way in the champion's league?
We shut Chelsea down in the CL, let's do it again. The rest of the league is a joke.