Napoli v Liverpool facts
Napoli will be looking to make their home form count and get a initial win on a house in Group C when they acquire final season’s runners-up Liverpool.
• The Italian side were hold 0-0 divided to debutants Crvena zvezda on matchday one, while Liverpool let outing a two-goal lead in their heavyweight foe with Paris Saint-Germain before surrogate Roberto Firmino’s added-time strike cumulative a 3-2 feat during Anfield.
Previous meetings
• The clubs have met usually twice before, in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation stage. The diversion in Naples finished scoreless; Ezequiel Lavezzi gave Napoli a first-half lead during Anfield before Steven Gerrard’s hat-trick in a final 15 minutes, including goals in a 88th and 89th minutes, cumulative a thespian late win for Liverpool.
• The Reds went on to finish tip of their section, with Napoli in second place; a Italian bar were separated in a turn of 32, Liverpool losing in a final 16.
Form guide
Napoli
• Serie A runners-up in 2017/18, Napoli are in a organisation theatre for a fifth time – all in a final 8 seasons. They reached a turn of 16 in 2011/12 and 2016/17.
• The Italian bar finished third in their territory final deteriorate – winning dual of their 3 home matches and losing a other – and went on to a UEFA Europa League turn of 32, where they mislaid to RB Leipzig.
• Napoli’s final home diversion opposite English visitors brought a 4-2 better by Manchester City in final season’s organisation theatre – their initial home retreat opposite Premier League opponents in their sixth such confront (W4 D1).
• The Italian side have mislaid dual of their final 3 home European matches, including a 1-3 detriment opposite Leipzig in their many new outing. However, they have suffered usually 4 waste in their final 26 European home fixtures (W16 D6).
• They have won usually dual of their final 6 home games in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre to final, losing three.
Liverpool
• Fourth in a Premier League in 2017/18, Liverpool are in a organisation theatre for a second deteriorate running, carrying featured once in a prior seven.
• Liverpool scored an normal of 3.15 goals per diversion in a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League.
• The five-time winners reached their eighth European Cup final in 2017/18, when they won 4 of their 7 UEFA Champions League divided matches (qualifying included), losing usually one.
• Liverpool were beaten on their final outing to Italy – also their many new European divided diversion – going down 4-2 during Roma in final season’s semi-final second leg, usually a second better in their final 14 European divided fixtures. The Reds have but won usually 5 of their final 19 (D8 L6).
• The Reds have mislaid usually dual of their final 8 divided games opposite Italian clubs, winning three.
Links and trivia
• Napoli are a eighth bar Carlo Ancelotti has coached in a UEFA Champions League, after Parma, Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, Paris, Real Madrid and Bayern, fluctuating his possess foe record.
• Mohamed Salah played in Serie A for Fiorentina (2015) and Roma (2015–17), scoring for a latter in a 3-1 win during a Stadio San Paolo in Oct 2016.
• Have also played in Italy:
Alisson Becker (Roma 2016–18)
Xherdan Shaqiri (Inter 2015)
• Have played in England:
Vlad Chiricheș (Tottenham 2013–15)
David Ospina (Arsenal 2014–18)
• Have played together:
Kalidou Koulibaly Sadio Mané (Metz 2011/12)
Dries Mertens Georginio Wijnaldum (PSV Eindhoven 2011–13)
José Callejón, Raúl Albiol Fabinho (Real Madrid 2012/13)
• International team-mates:
Dries Mertens Divock Origi, Simon Mignolet (Belgium)
Kalidou Koulibaly Sadio Mané (Senegal)
José Callejón, Raúl Albiol Albeto Moreno (Spain)
Marko Rog Dejan Lovren (Croatia)