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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 2:58:30 GMT
vs. Liverpool F.C. vs S.S.C. Napoli 2019-2020 UEFA Champions League, Group E - 27 Nov. 2019, 20:00 GMT (3pm US EST) at Anfield
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 3:00:01 GMT
Head-to-Head -Liverpool: 2 wins -Napoli: 12 wins -1 draw
All-time match record -21 Oct. 2010 (UEFA Europa League, Group K - NAP): Napoli 0, Liverpool 0 -4 Nov. 2010 (UEFA Europa League, Group K - LIV): Liverpool 3, Napoli 1 -3 Oct. 2018 (UEFA Champions League, Group C - NAP): Napoli 1, Liverpool 0 -11 Dec. 2018 (UEFA Champions League, Group C - LIV): Liverpool 1, Napoli 0 -17 Sept. 2019 (UEFA Champions League, Group E - NAP): Napoli 2, Liverpool 0
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 19:06:23 GMT
(The Guardian) PreambleTheir defence of this competition may have got under way on a bum note in Naples but Liverpool have been unblemished since that defeat in September, going on to show their true colours. That loss is one of a few anomalies in an extraordinary year – Jürgen Klopp’s side have lost just four matches in 2019 – and they edged past the Serie A side at Anfield 1-0 en route to the final last season. Victory will once more secure passage to the knockout stages of a competition they fell head over heels for all over again last season. For Klopp, it is the 100th European game of his managerial career, dating back to visiting Armenia with Mainz. In Napoli they face a brilliant team perturbed by off-field troubles, with club president Aurelio de Laurentiis set to fine players because of a failure to attend a week-long training camp and Carlo Ancelotti’s side winless in six matches. Some housekeeping: the winner of this, if there is one, will qualify from Group E and if Red Bull Salzburg fail to win at Genk then Liverpool will qualify for the last 16, even if they lose to Napoli. “I expect Napoli to be really strong for a number of reasons,” Klopp said. “They are a really good football team and now they’re not in Italy, they feel maybe relief they can play in this game. Napoli gave us a proper fight at Anfield last season. We have to make sure from the first second this is a different place. We want to go as far as possible in the Champions League. Napoli are experienced, tactically strong, super players.”
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 19:07:49 GMT
(The Guardian) The teams!-- Liverpool: Alisson; Gomez, Van Dijk, Lovren, Robertson; Henderson, Fabinho, Milner; Salah, Firmino, Mané Subs: Adrián, Wijnaldum, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, Shaqiri, Origi, Alexander-Arnold-- Napoli: Meret; Maksimovic, Manolas, Koulibaly, Rui; Di Lorenzo, Fabián Ruiz, Allan, Zielinski; Lozano, Mertens Subs: Ospina, Luperto, Elmas, Gaetano, Callejon, Llorente, Younes Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 19:21:49 GMT
(The Guardian) Klopp makes three changes, with Salah, Joe Gomez and James Milner in for Alexander-Arnold, Wijnaldum and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Xherdan Shaqiri, meanwhile, is on the bench for the first time since September after returning from injury. If Napoli are going to do the double over Liverpool, they will have to go some, because they are without Arkadiusz Milik and Lorenzo Insigne. Fabián Ruiz is helluva player, though.
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 19:54:55 GMT
(The Guardian) Klopp speaks[/b[: “They are set up for a result here, what can I say?” he says. “They have brought everybody that is available, they have speed up front, technique in midfield and they bring all the physicality they can for defending. It will be a tough one.” As for Joe Gomez filling in at full-back in place of Alexander-Arnold, he says: “Joe was full of dynamic in the last couple of weeks and we want to him let him off the leash. We have that option so we take it.” Asked about turbulence in Napoli camp, Klopp is the pragmatist: “When you don’t know exactly what happens there .. the only thing I think is ‘what would I do in the situation?’ I’d try and bring the camp completely together. We probably have to expect that from Carlo [Ancelotti] as well. There is no advantage for us, absolutely not, and it’s not a disadvantage. Game on, that’s all.”
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:00:31 GMT
The teams are on the pitch; for Liverpool, a win (or elsewhere, a Genk win OR a Genk-Salzburg draw) will see them advance... Time...for some European football! liverpool scarf-1 liverpool scarf-1
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:01:47 GMT
...and we're underway from Anfield!
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:04:49 GMT
(The Guardian) 2 min: Napoli swing an early free-kick into the box but Liverpool whoosh it clear. Salah races in behind but Meret is alert to it.
3 min: Firmino plays a sly ball in for Salah but Koulibaly is equal to it. Sadio Mané is then almost freed and Napoli, eventually, choose to clear their lines. Liverpool have made a fast start here.
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:05:14 GMT
(The Guardian) 4 min: Lozano spreads play wide to Di Lorenzo but the cross in is painfully poor. It zooms on to the roof of Alisson’s net.
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:07:12 GMT
(The Guardian) 5 min: Sadio Mané surges down the left but Maksimovic blocks him off. Napoli goal-kick. Bright start for Liverpool, whose supporters seem well up for it.
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:08:41 GMT
(The Guardian) 6 min: Di Lorenzo is grounded after coming off worse in an aerial challenge with Milner. The Napoli winger beat Milner to a header but came crashing back down to earth and requires treatment. The physio digs out some magic spray, and that seems to have done the trick.
7 min: Di Lorenzo is back to his feet and, almost instantly, he is fouled by Mané. When things aren’t going your way ...
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:10:43 GMT
(The Guardian) 8 min: Fabinho overcooks a high ball over the top of the Napoli defence in search of Mané. Meret races out to greet him before Henderson tries and fails to gather the seconds. Napoli have seen precious little of the ball.
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:12:35 GMT
(The Guardian) 10 min: Koulibaly misjudges a routine header and Salah flies down the right flank. He jinks inside before bamboozling Koulibaly after the defender tried to get back at his man. Salah tries to float a cross into the box but that’s no trouble for Meret.
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Post by Webster on Nov 27, 2019 20:16:17 GMT
(The Guardian) 12 min: Now this is admirable. Mário Rui, the Napoli left-back, spots Alisson off his line and fancies a pop at goal. Rui, who nudges the ball forward a touch or two, is a yard inside his own half as he lets fly. His effort is far from disastrous but it’s a little wayward and Alisson jogs back towards goal and scoops up the ball besides the advertising hoardings.
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