You wait around for ages to knock some Mancs out of a cup..

After the fun and games on Wednesday it's now the turn of the other, darker side of Manchester to try their luck at Anfield.

Jamie Carragher - Voice of the Nation

It would be fair to say that there's a little bit of an edge to this game.. just a little.The whole Suarez affair has left this tie perilously close to something of a precipice - suppose it would do everyone good to take a step back, but that's not going to happen any time soon. Patrice Evra it is fair to say has not endeared himself to Liverpool fans of late. Not that he was among our favourite individuals about the place, but there is a general perception that he is a liar, liar and there have been rumours that his pants are indeed on fire.

There are echoes of the previous FA Cup tie between the two at Anfield in 2006 when everyone's favourite manc gobshite did little to endear to himself to us after running the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of the away end at Old Trafford.

I've never been to a game before where one person was targeted so much before, the noise every time Neville touched the ball was.. well, a bit noisy. Now that the Anti-Carragher has retired Evra has quite handily filled the void.

I do also think that the FA are quite happy that they didn't give Suarez an 6 game ban as the game tomorrow would have been his first game back, which would have been - well a little bit mental.

Liverpool do have their work cut out tomorrow. Following the match on Wednesday I suspect that Liverpool will be a little less prepared for this match in particular compared to Man Utd, who have spent their week putting their feet up and watching us running about knocking out City.

Luis Suarez won't be taking part tomorrow and sadly neither will Wes Brown

It is also fair to say that we benefited in a similar way in the first leg of the semi with City as they had just played in the 3rd round against Man Utd, with 10 men for most of that game. You have to deal with these things though, that's the point of having  a squad.

Changes will have to be made, for example it is difficult to see Bellamy playing much part tomorrow following his efforts on Wednesday.

So it will be the turn of Andy Carroll to step up. Frankly it would be about time. I thought that he might kick on after scoring at Goodison earlier in the season. You would have thought that would have done wonders for his confidence, which seemed to be his problem. It may actually be his fitness level that is the problem, or maybe he just doesn't give a shit. I don't know, but whatever it is he needs to sort it out sharpish and tomorrow would be the perfect place to start.

I have my reservations about tomorrow.. largely because of the efforts on Wednesday. And also because I am generally quite pessimistic when it comes to predicting our games. In fact it is usually a good sign. It's when I start to confident (like last Saturday at Bolton) that the wheels tend to come off.

We shall see. Liverpool's home form anyway has been less than spectacular with draws becoming something of a speciality. So I suppose the smart money would be on the replay when we can get them back at their gaff and by that time we'll have a certain Mr Suarez back for the trip to Manchester - now won't that be fun.