We don't have many proven winners in our squad like Juve have but what we do have is a mythical stadium where magic always happens in Europe. The type of pedigree that the players will feel inside themselves on the strength of our history. Djimi Traore, Igor Biscan, Anthony Le Tallec, Sinama Pongolle, Neil Mellor, the list goes on, they struggled week in week out and turned into monsters when they stood in a Liverpool shirt and heard that champions league music. Our players will feel ten feet tall and for City it will be as much of a test of their bottle and their maturity as it will be of their fantastic style of play. Sterling flaps it when he comes to Anfield for a league match, in fact a lot of their players seem to struggle at Anfield, they'll think they know what to expect but nothing can prepare them for what will hit them in that first leg. They might be relishing the tie but we can make life extremely, extremely difficult for them.
Outside of the atmosphere at Anfield I think we also need to remember that we are an excellent football team, and while City have been magnificent this season, they haven't yet won anything worthy of giving them the adulation that they are receiving. Of course, we need to respect them. But there seems to be more fear over this City side than there is of a Real Madrid team who, like us, are a different beast in Europe to domestically and are chasing a hatrick (a fucking hatrick) of european cups. More fear for City than of Barcelona, who still have players in their team who made up probably the best side of all time and have been favourites to win the competition every year for the last decade. City are a fantastic team, capable of coming to Anfield and winning it in the 1st leg alone. But we are also a fantastic team with genuine pedigree and a history absolutely littered with victories on these types of occasions.
It's going to be a massive battle, heart attack inducing stuff. But what an opportunity presents itself to both clubs. The games can't come soon enough.