Fellow Kopite Julie Ainsworth from Dovecot was equally as confident and is even sure Steven Gerrard will not only lead the side to victory tonight but that he will be lifting aloft the gleaming trophy in Moscow in May.
"We're a great Champions League team and we'll show that again tonight," she said. "Marseille will think they have the beating of us after what happened at Anfield but they will get a shock if they think we'll play that badly again.
"We're a different team now to the one which played them at Anfield. We're full of confidence, our best players are at the top of their game and we don't have too many injury worries.
"We'll win tonight and then the momentum we'll build up will take us all the way in the competition this season, I'm sure of it."
Media interest in the game over here has been phenomenal. It was standing room only at last night's press briefing and the local papers are full of comment and predictions about tonight's game.
The Daily Telegraph's Henry Winter is part of the travelling press party and he's in no doubts that Rafa Benitez is just the man to guide Liverpool out of what has been an unpredictable Group A.
He said: "I've been to so many Liverpool matches over the years and, during the Olympiacos game I thought, 'No chance'. At half-time in Istanbul I thought, 'No chance'.
"You can never write off Liverpool. When you've got players with the quality of Carragher, Reina, Mascherano and Torres then that's half a team of outstanding individuals, with some good supporting players around them.
"Plus the manager in Benitez. He is brilliant for raising a team for a one-off game like this. Like he said yesterday, this is a cup final and Liverpool quite like cup finals."
Will the 2800 travelling supporters be celebrating inside the intimidating Stade Velodrome this evening or will we be reflecting on what might have been in this season's competition?
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