I saw more than enough last night to know we won't fall off a cliff like everyone hopes. We matched them for large periods of the game and when we equalised, we were more than capable of going on and getting a winner - their goal maybe came from us chasing that winner. My biggest fear was that we would face a City side on top form, who would potentially put 3/4 past us and win convincingly - that would have been something to knock our confidence and make people question us, the defence, our mentality etc... but there was none of that. It was just two teams that are head and shoulders above everyone else in the league - and I include Spurs in that. They showed us a lot of respect and had to work so, so hard for the 3 points.
We aren't facing that quality of opposition every week. We will have tough games for sure but we need to bounce back against Brighton - if we do that, then we are in a great position still. It will be a difficult game but if we go into it with the same application and desire as we had yesterday, then we will be absolutely fine - our quality is good, our intensity is good, our attacking threat is starting to hit its peak and we still appear to be relatively fresh. Injuries are always a concern but until they happen then I'm not worrying about them.
I wish we were playing Brighton tonight, to try and put things right and just stop these questions that people are willing to come true - 'will they hit a bad patch now?', 'it will start unravelling', 'they will bottle it etc..' Lets put that right v Brighton. Get VVD, Alisson, TAA, Andy Robbo, Salah, Mane, Firmino on a beach far, far away and get them rested to start the second half of the season.
One game at a time, as we have been doing. Forget about the rest. We can all see that this team has a resillience and a mentality like no other Liverpool side in recent years - they will not fall off a cliff. I am not saying they will romp to a title either, as City are more than capable of winning 15-16 of their last 17 games but we are in a title race and we aren't going anywhere. Both sides will drop more points, we just need to be more consistent. And as I said, we aren't playing City every week. They got their little shot in the arm last night but there is still a gap and every 3 points we collect will worry them.