Manchester City have warmed up nicely for Anfield. Warm in the sense that most of the main protagonists spent all or some of last night under blankets.
City earned the right by how they performed in Copenhagen three weeks ago, an almost flawless away display in Europe where they strangled high octane opposition in a stadium that has consumed others.
Earned the right to make seven changes and still breeze into the Champions League’s last eight for a seventh consecutive year, Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United the only other English team to have managed that before.