Liverpool are struggling on their return to the Champions League, as well, and need to beat Basel in order to progress to the knockout stages, though Rodgers still believes that his side can ensure continental football next term.
"I have an inherent belief that we can still make the top four - absolutely," he told reporters. "I know what we are all capable of here. For whatever reason, it hasn't happened for us yet but I said to the players the other night our standards will go up after the game against Ludogorets [a 2-2 draw].
"Thankfully no matter how we have been, we are still within touching distance and that is the initial aim. Fourth and then moving forward. If that is the aim - and we are only five points off it - then that gives me belief we have every chance of doing it."
Rodgers admitted on Friday that he is the favourite to be next in the sack race following the club's poor start to the new campaign, though he will persist with his current methods to turn things around.
"All I can do is my best and I will continue to do my best," he added. "I have faith in my methods and a way of working.
"We have been given a different deck of cards and, as a coach, I have to do what I think gets the best out of them. I have methods, a belief and a philosophy but you also have to get results. I am not a fantasist."
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