To me it will be crucial to win and see the team not giving up at any moment. Me personally dont think it will happen given our defending ant crucial moments collapses in high pressure moments even fucking Bristol City gave us problems and scored goals luckily we faced a mentally dead Arsenal in final.
But it will be interesting to see that if we dont win how its gonna happen. We win 2-0 or 3-1 and say it was close, we gave our best today wasnt enough. Or its gonna be 1-1, 2-2 or even lose both ties. Huge difference imo even if same outcome in the end. To me this gonna be a difference end of season looking back to it if our CL journey ends on Tuesday.
To go trough we need a miracle either scoring 4-5-6-7 goals maybe. Or score 3 woithout conceding but given the conversation rate of Pool/united in two game against us, less then 10 shot on goals they had imo 6 of them were goals. And limiting Liverpool to having no shots on goal is gonna be hard.
What we dont have imo is the steel to keep it safe for Ederson lets say we go up 2-0 until 30 minutes I can easily see them scoring one goal and within 20 miinute another probably from 1 shot in that 20 minutes.
So from 2-1 up we would have to go to score 3 more to be 5-1 up with probably pushing forward so much that our defending especially against quick counter would fail.
We really dont like the gegenpressing of Klopp. Fernandinho, Kompany, Otamendi will struggle a lot under pressure and none of them will want the ball probably.
Even 3-1 loss this week would have given us so much more chance than the 3-0. The zero shot on target vs Karius really is something.
I want City players to give their all and not collapse even for 10-20 minutes period because that is enough for teams like Liverpool, United to score 3 goals like this week proved it.
Beat them even if we dont go trough. Will be easier to accept going out of CL with a win and better die trying than to play a shit 1-1 with not even being close to anything during 180 minutes of the tie.
Ederson, Delph, Otamendi, Kompany, Walker, Fernandinho, Silva, KDB, Sane, Kun, Sterling will start imo would change maybe Laporte for Otamendi.