ANYONE thinking Liverpool FC are in for an easy ride at Wembley on Sunday will be very much mistaken.

It’s going to be a more difficult game than some people are expecting.

Cardiff may be in the npower Championship but they are a good team, a better team than Brighton.

They play five across the middle and in Kenny Miller they have a striker who knows how to play up front on his own.

I played in three League Cup finals at Wembley for Liverpool FC, and every time we appeared at the stadium Ronnie Moran would say the same thing: “Don’t forget to play”.

He’s right. You can get sucked into it being a showpiece game – sorting tickets for people and waving at the wife and kids – that you forget you have a football game to play.

Liverpool FC only need a couple of players to think “Hey, I’m at Wembley, aren’t I good?” then they will be in a mess.

What shouldn’t be overlooked is the fact that with play-off finals and FA Cup semi-final and final, Cardiff have been to Wembley a few times in recent years. They know what it’s all about, and it could make a difference.

Liverpool’s win over Brighton was the first time Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll were in the same starting line-up.

Gerrard is already on the same wavelength as Suarez, but he is such a good player that he has already started knocking good balls up to Carroll.

Carroll is getting there slowly, and is a much better player with Gerrard in the team because of the deliveries the skipper provides.

That’s a sign of a world-class player, someone who improves his team-mates.

Carroll has missed that kind of service.

If you give him balls from wide areas, then whoever is marking him is on the half-turn and that gives Carroll more of an advantage.