Mohammed Salah and Darwin Nunez scored to help Liverpool produce one of the most comfortable football scores of the midweek action in the Champions League. Neither team really got out of second gear since the odds of Liverpool turning around a four-goal swing to win the group was never in danger of happening. However, two late goals from Liverpool were scored by Salah, who poked in from close range after Alex Meret cleared Nunez’s header off the line, and Nunez, who was given a goal by VAR after putting in Virgil van Dijk’s saved the first header.
Leo Ostigard appeared to have given Napoli the lead with a header on minute 53, but VAR reversed the goal three minutes later after discovering the center-back had been in front of the action. It was a much better night for Liverpool at Anfield than the 2-1 Premier League loss to Leeds on Saturday. Liverpool’s defensive play against a free-scoring team like Napoli pleased Jurgen Klopp.
After Tom Watson, Bill Shankly, and Bob Paisley, Klopp became the fourth Liverpool manager to achieve 400 games in charge of the club, but it wasn’t one of his memorable European nights beneath the Anfield lights. After a string of inconsistent outcomes, it’s hard to predict which Liverpool will show up this season, and for long stretches of this match, it wasn’t evident.
For brief periods in the first half, Klopp’s team displayed a high level of focus. Thiago tested Meret’s gloves from a distance, while Curtis Jones, who was a member of the Liverpool front three, missed a header after a deftly flicked cross from Roberto Firmino. Prior to this trip to Anfield, Napoli has won 13 straight games across all competitions and is on top of the Serie A standings.
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