"When you play against Arsenal it is always difficult, they are a team with quality and can always score goals against you," said the boss.
"But for us to score an away goal and then to have the prospect of them having to play against our fans at Anfield next, is extremely important for us.
"Anfield will be the massive difference. We will have energy, but also there will be great energy from our supporters, they will be on top of Arsenal.
"Between us we will have the strength to win, Arsenal will be playing our fans too.
"But we respect Arsenal. We know they are very capable of scoring away goals, they are such a good team. So we will need a massive effort from everyone to get through to the semi-finals.
"Arsene [Wenger] knows he has a good team and that they can be very effective on the counter-attack, but he knows that Anfield will be a very difficult place to play."