Phil Foden ensured he grabbed the headlines with a coming-of-age performance at Anfield last season, but it was Ilkay Gundogan who was Manchester City's real star.
Despite missing a first-half penalty, Gundogan scored two goals either side of a Mo Salah spot-kick to put City on their way to a long-awaited win at Liverpool seven months ago, before Raheem Sterling and Foden made it a hammering.
City return to Liverpool this weekend looking for another win having broken their Anfield hoodoo, with the added complication of a much better home defence and a full house at Anfield.
The Blues pressed their way to victory last time against a centre-back pairing of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson. On Sunday, it will be Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip.
Maybe City will need to find another level to record a second successive victory at Anfield. Their new summer signing could be their secret weapon to doing just that.
Last season, they lined up with Foden as the false nine, with Sterling left and Riyad Mahrez right. Gundogan - at the height of his goalscoring powers at the start of the year - pushed up from midfield, with Rodri and Bernardo Silva protecting. When Bernardo went forward, Joao Cancelo inverted into midfield from right-back.
It was a performance where everything came together and City made their own luck, aggressively pushing the hosts in possession and forcing Alisson to make two high-profile errors.
Pep Guardiola has suggested Foden and Gabriel Jesus could come back in after being dropped at PSG, with Jesus perhaps replacing Mahrez on the right and Foden either going centrally or on the left.
That would shift Jack Grealish back after an ineffective performance on the left in Paris, and with Gundogan injured this week there is a space in that midfield three for him to occupy.
Of course, Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva will also be fighting for those midfield spots, but Grealish could act as a new problem for Liverpool to solve against City - especially if he reprises Gundogan's advanced role from central midfield from February.
Grealish enjoys playing Liverpool. He has two goals and four assists in four appearances against them. Incredibly, five of those contributions came in last season's 7-2 demolishing of the then-champions at Villa Park.
He will be motivated to continue that run and put right a disappointing night against PSG. Last season showed that City can have success in overloading the Liverpool defence, and Grealish's Man of the Match display for Villa came with Van Dijk in the opposition side.
It was arguably the performance that catapulted Grealish into the minds of the top clubs, and he has since earned his move to City to showcase his talents in a title race and in Europe. Now he's got the move he wanted, he can start to influence those title-defining fixtures.
Last season was Foden's opportunity to tell the world he had well and truly arrived on the big stage. Could Sunday's trip to Anfield be the same moment for Grealish?
