Rickie: I'm confident goals will come

The England forward is yet to net for his new club in seven appearances following a summer switch from Southampton, while Mario Balotelli has scored once in 11 outings since swapping AC Milan for the Reds.

However, the pair linked up encouragingly after Lambert came off the bench in the second half of Saturday's goalless draw with Hull City, and the 32-year-old is convinced their luck will change sooner rather than later.

"I think I can forge a partnership with any of the strikers here," he said. "Sometimes it works better with two strikers, sometimes it doesn't.

"I've come on this season on plenty of occasions either as a one or a two depending on the opposition.

"On Saturday it put more pressure on and we created more chances and it turned out to be a good formation.

"Obviously you want to hit the ground running and you want to score. The longer it goes on, sometimes the harder it is.

"It depends how you are mentally. Sometimes it's hard to stay calm but I'm confident it will come.

"Mario is a good striker and we are all behind him. I thought he did well, held the ball up and did all the things he was asked to. He was unlucky with a couple of chances.

"Like myself, Mario just needs a goal - that is exactly what a striker needs. If it goes in off your backside it doesn't really matter. Then the confidence flows."

Lambert will be hoping to get the nod to start his third game for the club in this evening's Capital One Cup fourth-round tie with Swansea City at Anfield.

"It is a chance to impress if I am playing and I hope I am," he added. "That is exactly what it is. It's a chance to shine and do well and try to get on the scoresheet.

"I'm not going to go on about how it has gone for me so far here, I'm just looking forward to Tuesday and looking to get that win."

Despite a mixed start to the 2014-15 season, Liverpool find themselves just two points off fourth place in the Barclays Premier League table, while a win over Swansea would move them into the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

"Obviously the fluency between every single department is not the way we want it," Lambert concluded.

"But common sense means it's not going to be the way we want it now. It's building and it is getting better and we believe sooner rather than later we are going to be firing on all cylinders.

"At the minute it's not quite there but we are not losing games, we are picking up points and we are not in the worst position.

"When we are firing on all cylinders we are in a position to start getting into the serious places."