Liverpool's veteran Finn has urged his team-mates to enjoy their current league position.
Sami Hyypia is pleased with the way Liverpool's season has gone so far and has urged his team-mates to forget about the extra pressure being top brings and concentrate on taking each game as it comes.
"I don't think we should see being top as extra pressure," said the defender.
"We have done well to get there and now we just have to do our best to stay there.
"All we can do is try to win every game and then we will see what happens, there is no point looking too far ahead or putting ourselves under any unnecessary pressure.
"We should be happy to be top and just enjoy being there."
Hyypia put in a man-of-the-match performance in the 3-1 Liverpool victory over Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, after replacing Daniel Agger at the heart of the Reds' defence. He believes that the victory was a timely boost for the Anfield men, and demonstrated the patience that is part of their armoury.
"It was an important win for us because we know if we keep on winning we will remain top," he said.
"Ewood Park is never an easy place to come and win and Blackburn played with a high tempo and made things hard for us but our performance was quite controlled and we got our reward in the end.
"We held on to the ball and eventually the chances came and thankfully we managed to take them."
The Reds had drawn their previous two games at home against West Ham United and Fulham and Hyppia was pleased that they returned to winning ways, identifying Xabi Alonso's opening goal as crucial to the victory. He also praised the performance of Steven Gerrard, who scored the clinching third goal in injury-time at the end of the game.
"The first goal in any game is always important but particularly in this game because we had gone a couple of matches without scoring.
"We managed to get it and when we scored again I thought that was it but they managed to score towards the end and that put a little bit of pressure on us.
"But Steven came up with the goods again and it was nice to see that one go in. We knew the points were in the bag then. We’re happy to take the three points."
Sami Hyypia is pleased with the way Liverpool's season has gone so far and has urged his team-mates to forget about the extra pressure being top brings and concentrate on taking each game as it comes.
"I don't think we should see being top as extra pressure," said the defender.
"We have done well to get there and now we just have to do our best to stay there.
"All we can do is try to win every game and then we will see what happens, there is no point looking too far ahead or putting ourselves under any unnecessary pressure.
"We should be happy to be top and just enjoy being there."
Hyypia put in a man-of-the-match performance in the 3-1 Liverpool victory over Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, after replacing Daniel Agger at the heart of the Reds' defence. He believes that the victory was a timely boost for the Anfield men, and demonstrated the patience that is part of their armoury.
"It was an important win for us because we know if we keep on winning we will remain top," he said.
"Ewood Park is never an easy place to come and win and Blackburn played with a high tempo and made things hard for us but our performance was quite controlled and we got our reward in the end.
"We held on to the ball and eventually the chances came and thankfully we managed to take them."
The Reds had drawn their previous two games at home against West Ham United and Fulham and Hyppia was pleased that they returned to winning ways, identifying Xabi Alonso's opening goal as crucial to the victory. He also praised the performance of Steven Gerrard, who scored the clinching third goal in injury-time at the end of the game.
"The first goal in any game is always important but particularly in this game because we had gone a couple of matches without scoring.
"We managed to get it and when we scored again I thought that was it but they managed to score towards the end and that put a little bit of pressure on us.
"But Steven came up with the goods again and it was nice to see that one go in. We knew the points were in the bag then. We’re happy to take the three points."
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