look to change their dismal record at Anfield

here for a long time to come, so he will go to Anfield many times. “He grew up as a player at Liverpool and he has good memories of his career there. Of course Liverpool fans want him to play badly. He doesn’t want to play bad, he wants to play good. “But no, I don’t leave him out because of pressure from the fans.” With City and Liverpool locked at the top of the Premier League table, neutrals are hoping for fireworks as the two most attacking teams go head-to-head. Yet Guardiola and the Champions have to change their miserable records at Anfield. Guardiola has lost on all three of his visits and it’s the only Premier League ground on which he is yet to taste victory. As for City, their Anfield misery stretches back to May 2003, with just four points out of a possible 45 since then. Star striker Sergio Aguero has netted 206 goals for the club since his arrival in 2011, but he has still never scored in front of The Kop. Yet his consistency in English football has been outstanding. Mohamed Salah enjoyed a brilliant first season at Liverpool last year, although he has not hit those heights yet this campaign. And as Guardiola acknowledges, the challenge is to do that season after season, just as Aguero has done. “We will see in the future, but a guy who has the quality to score 50 goals in a season always has that quality,” he says. “Football is about ups and downs. Salah remains an excellent player and will score goals in the future. “Sergio has scored a lot of goals but there were periods when he didn’t score goals. How many years has Sergio scored all these goals, eight or nine? “For Salah, it was the first one. So we will see in seven or eight years. “Sergio’s huge value comes from being consistent over many, many years. It is about being consistent every three days for 11 months. “Doing that for 10 or 11 years is the most important thing for a footballer today. That is what the big players around Europe do.” If City need any extra motivation for today’s crunch game, it comes from the Champions League match in April when their team bus was attacked on the way to the stadium. Kyle Walker was on the bus and knows he and his team-mates must not be intimidated by the Anfield atmosphere. “If you let them intimidate you, they have won before you are even at the ground,” he says. “If they are trying to get under your skin, it gets your back up. “There is a lot of testosterone flying around and you want to prove a point. “OK, we didn’t do it on that night but we have today to put it right.”