Heurelho Gomes believes a 6-1 drubbing at Anfield earlier in the season will have little bearing on proceedings when Liverpool visit Vicarage Road on Monday night.

The Watford number one experienced a torrid time on Merseyside in November – going off with an injury with the score at 2-0 – as Jurgen Klopp’s side ran riot to move to the top of the Premier League.

Plenty of water has passed under the two club’s respective bridges since then, and Gomes feels the Hornets are more than capable of upsetting the odds on May Day.

Gomes said: “It was a heavy defeat, but every game is different. We cannot look at that game and think we are going to lose again and concede six.

“If we do not approach the game well, we can have a heavy defeat. We are able to do good things and are able compete as well.

“We reached 40 points by getting points from not just teams below us, but also getting some points from teams above us and that is important.

“It is important that we need to believe and if we believe we can do very good things.”

A deflating 2-0 defeat against 10-man Hull last time out took the steam out of a run of form which had seen Watford take nine points from their previous four games.

All three of the victories in that sequence came at home and there is a sense Walter Mazzarri’s side will welcome a return to action under the lights at the Vic.

Gomes, for one, expects a reaction to the loss at the KCOM and is calling on his team mates to put the defeat behind them and bounce back.

“It is not easy to play against 10 men and they are an organised team, but that is no excuse,” he said.

“We are disappointed and maybe even more so for the fans that travelled up to Hull.

“We have to react every time things go wrong. If you think differently from that, it can get to you. We did that (reacted well) a few times this season and we have to do that again on Monday.”