It isn't just Liverpool's youngsters feeling the excitement and anticipation of potentially moving a step nearer silverware.
For under-18s coach Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, this evening's FA Youth Cup semi-final at Ipswich Town is a reminder of when he was the one lacing up his boots and putting on his shinpads.
"It's like going back to my playing days, when you looked forward to a game because it had real meaning," he says.
"This gives me the same type of feeling - it is a genuine game. This isn't an Academy-type game, it's a proper game of football, it's about win or lose. The whole experience will be a wonderful thing for the boys to have.
"However much we want to play well, people will only really remember the result. That's what the boys have to grasp and so far we have done that really well."
With the overriding aim of Academy football to prepare youngsters for life in the first team, the trip to Portman Road represents an ideal opportunity for Bridge-Wilkinson's side to gain much-needed experience in a knockout competition in front of live television cameras - the game, which kicks off at 6pm, is being broadcast on BT Sport.
Having seen off Sutton United, Manchester United, Leicester City and Arsenal, Liverpool will be favourites to overcome an Ipswich team who needed a last-minute extra-time own goal to beat Sheffield United in the quarter-finals.
And Bridge-Wilkinson adds: "Ultimately, football is about winning, and when you get to first-team level it is all about winning.
"Our job is to give the boys every opportunity to become a first-team player. Winning becomes a part of it, but not all of it.
"The Youth Cup this season has been the only one where we've really been able to try and win something. We tried to win the league, but the way the age groups work and we have to move bodies around, that always becomes more difficult.
"Potentially this could be the first time a lot of people see the boys play. But it's about forgetting about those things and performing on the level we are capable of. Hopefully people can see the level we can play at."
Liverpool travelled to Suffolk on Tuesday afternoon with Bridge-Wilkinson keen for the youngsters to sample a build-up similar to that of Jurgen Klopp's senior squad.
"It's something different for the boys," he says. "We have had overnight stays in the league for trips to places like Middlesbrough and Newcastle, but this is an overnight with an evening kick-off.
"We will do similar things to what the first team might do, similar times of breakfast and lunch and follow those same patterns.
"Hopefully the boys will learn a lot from it and fingers crossed we come out with a positive result."
Forwards Mateusz Musialowski and Max Woltman, along with midfielder James Balagizi, have commanded the headlines in earlier rounds, with all three impressing in the 3-1 victory over Arsenal at Anfield in the quarter-finals.
At the other end of the field, the young Reds - who will face either Aston Villa or West Bromwich Albion should they reach the final - have conceded only two goals en route to the last four, both of which were penalties.
Key to that have been the performances of Jarell Quansah, the 18-year-old revelling in his role as skipper alongside fellow centre-back Billy Koumetio.
"I have worked with him for a number of years now and know the potential he has got," says Bridge-Wilkinson. "He has really stepped up in the captain's role we gave him at the start of the year, he is becoming more of a leader.
"From the outside looking in, potentially he has gone under the radar a little but, within these walls, a lot of people think a lot of him.
"He handles himself in the right way, and for the group and also the younger groups he sets an example. He is a worthy captain."
