Despite failing to build on last season's second-place finish in the Barclays Premier League, the Argentina captain has faith that the Reds can restore some pride by meeting the two targets to ensure that the current campaign can be considered a success of sorts.
Having crashed out of the Champions League, in addition to the Carling and FA Cups, Liverpool will face Unirea Urziceni next month in the Europa League and Mascherano, 25, sees no reason why Rafael Benitez's side cannot sweep all before them between now and the end of the season.
He said: "The target for us is to try and be in the top four in the league and to win the Europa League.
"For me the Europa League is important because at the moment it is the only competition we can win.
"Okay, it is not the Champions League but I want to win something with Liverpool and we have the chance to do that in the Europa League, so we will try our best to win that.
"Also, if you win the Europa League you can play in the UEFA Super Cup against the Champions League winners and that would be really good for the team and the club, so we will see."
The Reds travel to Wolverhampton Wanderers tonight with just a point separating them from Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City and Mascherano feels that last week's win over Harry Redknapp's side will act as a springboard against the club's two main contenders for fourth.
He added: "It is only one point and that can be turned around in a single game. Obviously it doesn't depend only on us but the win against Tottenham reduced the gap on them, which is good for us. We are not too far away."
(lu sur Click Liverpool)
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Ah l'optimisme... Même si je veux bien y adérer.
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