Barcelona showed that City are not that hard to score against

One thing that Barcelona did manage to show us this week was that City are beatable when they come at you in a 4-4-2 formation and they are missing Yaya Toure.

While the latter will be back for the game at Anfield, there is no doubting that Vincent Kompany et al will remember how they were torn apart and that coupled with the fact that an early goal from Liverpool will knock their confidence further could well be key for Brendan Rodgers’ men.

Liverpool are in brilliant form at the minute in the league and despite their poor European record under Rodgers, have a post Christmas one to be proud of.