Are Roma trying to play down the atmosphere? We've see it all before.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Far better teams than Roma have come to Anfield on a big European night and crumbled, sometimes before they've even taken to the pitch.
The bigger, the louder and the more fanatical the crowd (without crossing over the line), the larger our own players grow, they grow into giants that night. The opposition shrinks into nothing. They can't grasp the fact that fans will travel for miles, a lot of them without tickets, just to cheer the Liverpool team bus heading towards the stadium.
But it's not about the opposition, it's not about Roma. They just happen to be in the way. It's about our own team, about the last home game in Europe this season and about heading back to where we belong.