Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool carry no retribution into the Merseyside derby.
Saturday’s clash with Everton is the Reds’ first meeting with their local rivals since a controversial game between the sides in October’s opening fixture.
Virgil van Dijk suffered a season-ending knee injury following an early first-half collision with Jordan Pickford while the visitors were denied a late winner.
But Klopp is adamant the Premier League champions do not have their previous meeting with Carlo Ancelotti’s side in mind ahead of the showdown.
He said: “I don’t know what I’ll think back when the season is over.
“Hopefully I will think about something nicer than this [the Everton game in October]. It was an important day, for sure.
“Nothing will be carried over to tomorrow, that’s how it is.
“A week later, two or three when we got the diagnosis for Virgil, it is good we didn’t play Everton immediately again, let me say it like this.
“That’s how it is, we are all human beings and it was not nice.
“Now, it’s long gone and we just don’t think about it anymore.
“But it’s still a derby and that’s enough to be motivated on the absolute highest level and trying to play the best possible football you can play.”
Everton make the short trip across Stanley Park with designs of ending a 23-match winless run at Anfield which stretches back to September 1999.
And Klopp feels Ancelotti’s players have a fighting chance of breaking the hoodoo with their hosts suffering a hat-trick of home league defeats.
“Everton had good teams over the years, most of the time it was close,” admitted the Liverpool manager.
“A manager like Carlo helps each team in the world.
“They have a really good squad and team and maybe they are closer than ever before. In the position in the table for sure.
“They are probably closer than they’ve been before.”