Score five, so be it’

still be possible for a team on course to smash the century mark for goals in the Premier League. “If we need to score five, so be it,” he said. “We’ve prided ourselves all season on being the team that we are. In the second half we certainly went back to being the team that we are.

“I’ve been in many games at Anfield where for 90 minutes you don’t get out and it wasn’t like that. It was just for a very short period of time we threw a lot away.” Kompany says it is vital City fans replicate the sort of intimidating atmosphere Liverpool supporters created at Anfield.

“It means everything,” he said. “I’ve seen it happen. Big games, big nights, they have always shown up and this will be one of them.

“Now we’ve got to do it the hard way and the fans have got a massive role to play. Fair play to Liverpool, their fans, the club, for the way they lived up to this event. But it’s our time to do it now.”

Outside the ground, the atmosphere was not so worthy of praise and UEFA have charged Liverpool on four separate counts for their supporters’ behaviour, all relating to the attacks on the City coach – setting off fireworks, throwing objects, acts of damage and crowd disturbances.

The case will heard on May 31, five days after the Champions League final in Kiev. Pep Guardiola’s assistant Manuel Estiarte posted frightening footage from inside the bus on social media yesterday and called the incident “unacceptable” while former Liverpool captain Steve Gerrard said the fans responsible were “out of order”.

Merseyside Police have asked the public to send them any footage of the incident they have on their mobile phones so they can identify the culprits.