Me too, if only to increase our chances of winning the game and pile pressure on Moyes. I don't think losing to us twice in less than 3 weeks and twice in 3 days will go down well with the OT faithful.
Nah,
we need to get a result in the game to keep alive an opportunity
of qualifying for Europe i.e. the priority is progression to the next round of
the competition. Beating Utd. in a early round of the cup is a bonus, puts
a smile on the face.
Moyes is an irrelevance to us, any short-term pain he endures may be of
interest to City, Chelsea, Arsenal etc., who might be poised to take advantage
of it
this season.
Just to re-iterate, our goal this season is to get top 4 - would take a miracle but hey!
Failing that, our goal is to qualify for the Europa League by winning a cup or
through the league position - sad but true.
Additionally we'll try to win the 2 cup competitions we're in.
Based on this analysis, should we lose tomorrow our opportunity for silverware
this season will be halved & entry to Europe next season made less likely though
not impossible. So for these reasons it's probably more important that we win, though
I'm sure both teams will try to win and Wazza was saying something about it being
a chance for redemption for them on the back of the City mauling.
I still think that Rodgers would view this trophy plus a very respectable league campaign
as success, so the damage done to us for this season would be greater (Moyes may
ultimately be more concerned this season with getting out of the CL group stages).