Luis Suarez’s Liverpool legacy continues to haunt Norwich City fans to this very day.

And with another trip to Anfield looming, we can only hope his Uruguayan striking successor is unable to emulate his exploits and inflict yet more Merseyside misery on our loyally-backed Canaries.

A bumper away following will descend on the north-west this weekend to watch David Wagner’s side attempt to somehow conjure a repeat of that storied FA Cup upset at Tottenham.

But if recent history is anything to go by, this is a fixture with Suarez’s fingerprints plastered all over it and one that invariably ends in heartbreak for those of a yellow and green persuasion.

Yes, we all remember that thunderous Grant Holt header in front of the Kop and Russell Martin celebrating the birth of his third child by cheekily lobbing Simon Mignolet to salvage a similar 1-1 draw.

But more often than not, the six-time European champions have been the ones to prevail and propelled by Suarez, leave indelible scars on all of us to have been present for his multitude of goalscoring masterclasses.

As a 27-year-old City fan, my sole memories of our tussles with Liverpool are dominated by Suarez’s ruthless trio of hat-tricks against us – the first player to do so against the same opponent in the Premier League – and the South American running rings around Ryan Bennett, Michael Turner and co.

Just over a decade on from his dazzling quadruple under the Anfield lights, Wagner’s defenders must ensure that the dangerous Darwin Nunez fails to channel the spirit of his compatriot and become a similarly synonymous figure with this most testing of fixtures.

It certainly won’t be easy.

Given his propensity to set up so defensively against the likes of Southampton and Hull, I think it’s fair to say we all know the strategy that Wagner will employ on Sunday afternoon.

Fair enough – this is Jurgen Klopp’s table-topping Liverpool and we all remember what happened when Daniel Farke’s side sought to translate that free-flowing, Championship-winning brand of football onto the top-flight stage on the opening night of the 2019/20 Premier League season.

While we’ve all been quick to criticise the City boss for deploying such negative tactics, the truth remains that we do look a more menacing side when hitting teams on the counter and attacking with the ball in transition.

For all our prolonged spells of possession at Leeds on Wednesday night, City struggled to inject any real cutting-edge into that performance and properly threaten Farke’s high-flying side in and around their box.

Which perhaps explains why our mini Championship revival has coincided with Wagner’s largely defensive gameplans, admittedly not the football fans want to see but equally a pragmatic approach that has hauled City back into the play-off race.

Regardless of what happens at Anfield on Sunday, Wagner does deserve credit for masterminding wins against the Tigers and West Brom last weekend, a considerably more complete performance that did see City control the contest for more sustained periods.

And while an assault on the top six may still appear unlikely, the last few results – Leeds aside – have at least given fans a glimmer of hope that Wagner might be the man to turn our fortunes around.

If anything, his side will be well-versed in the defensive, counter-attacking tactics that will inevitably feature at Anfield and therefore, I do believe City have an outside chance of pulling off another cup upset to savour.

But if they are to do so, they will need to rely on an absolutely rock-solid defensive display and the attacking talent of Jonathan Rowe, Borja Sainz, Josh Sargent and Gabriel Sara – hopefully deployed in a more advanced, Elland Road-resembling position once again – to take their chances when it matters.

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If not, we could be in for another long afternoon as Nunez, accompanied by the red-hot trio of Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and Cody Gakpo, looks to deliver a Suarez-esque display and send thousands of travelling Canaries – myself included – back down south despondent.

I’m not counting us out – we can only hope our players pull off the performances of a lifetime and successfully erase the memories of Suarez that have for so long been associated with this fixture.