For a start, we really do need to remove from our heads that this Liverpool team is somehow our Kryptonite.
It most certainly is not.
I've just spent the last hour watching Sky goals between our two clubs down the years.
Even when both teams were shit, they were scoring worldy goals against us at Anfield and we were losing games left right and centre.
There is a psychological barrier which exists for both teams at Anfield.
Liverpool, like Everton before them, until recent results, simply wanted it more on the day and were fuelled by some sense of trying to put us in our place, back to where we supposedly whence came from.
Even the 1-0 a couple years ago on NYE was a damning endictment, failing to take it to a poor Liverpool performance that day.
Norwich fans probably ask the same, what have we done to City to make them play like they do against us for the last 35 years?
We need to grow a pair, these players are on a different level to most around, even Liverpool fans will acknowledge it.
Don't wait to react to situations, set the agenda.
I fear even Pep has allowed himself to overthink what Liverpool present as an opponent, compensating more than he has to.
My opinion is that when you take away their desire, their legs and their crowd, you get a City that pretty much control the game very much like our win at Wembley against them.
Let's be honest, it should never have been allowed to get to penalties that day, and should have been five or six.
We are the Champions, go fucking play like
we own the place. Forget fucking bus attacks and the ref.
Everything else is just white noise and football.