A win will be absolutely huge mentally and then after that they have a tough fixtures up until new year , we also have some tough ones but out of our next nine league games six are at home and we’ve been pretty formidable at home so we could even make the gap bigger by new year than nine points if we win Sunday
All things being equal this is a huge opportunity for us. A draw isn't a disaster and (god forbid) a defeat will still leave us 3 points ahead of them after a much tougher start to the season. However, a win makes a formidable talented team on a mission even more determined and nails Anfield as a near impossible place to get something. It strengthens everything about the team and the club.
The opposite will be the case for City. A loss on Sunday and that creeping feeling that they are maybe, just past it, maybe not as hungry, that the wheel is turning on this phase of supreme domestic dominance. It's not just 3 points but psychologically, I think, a defeat makes it very hard for them to get it up for the next series of domestic games. There are a few clubs out there who want to repay City a few spankings they have recently meted out. City will leak if they lose and Utd, Chelsea etc will lick their lips.
That would be 3 defeats and a draw in 12 games. Nope, much and all as I don't want to admit to myself but if we beat them, all things being equal, then the League is ours to win.
I can't wait for the game. It's gonna be a blast.