Napoli (H) Champions League 11/12/18

[3 Stacks]

One of those games where the high press needs to come out. What can't happen is the pattern where most of the possession is between our CB's and Henderson and they're getting pressed. If we can't consistently get it through the lines or win the ball high up, we're not going through. 

[El Rojo]

It will be a very different game to the Roma home leg in April, as Ancelotti isn't a hapless bum who'll oblige us by playing a defensive line at halfway.

 

Agree that we'll need to press on them and force errors near their goal. Don't see us getting in behind them or outnumbering them on the counter.

 

I'd much rather that Napoli joined us in the next round rather than PSG, but I guess that's unlikely.

[Captain Turdseye]

The timing of their winner in Naples will have them believing they can score right until the final whistle goes. 

[johnsusername]

3-0, my guess. 

[SasaS]

41 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

The timing of their winner in Naples will have them believing they can score right until the final whistle goes. 

The timing of that yes, coupled with the basic knowledge of the rules of the game.

[manwiththestick]

I'm going tonight, first game in about 8 years, can't wait.

[Grinch]

Can kick off just hurry the fuck up, I've even resorted to doing household chores with work week starting tomorrow.

[TheHowieLama]

Anything less than broken windows to their team bus on the way in is a bad start.

[El Rojo]

9 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

I'm going tonight, first game in about 8 years, can't wait.

Never realised Adam Lallana posted on here.

[Jennings]

27 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

I'm going tonight, first game in about 8 years, can't wait.

I am going too. I'll see you there. I won't be able to miss you with that hat and that stick. I'll be wearing jeans, keep an eye out for me.

[Strontium]

4 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

Reckon it will be 2-1

 

My thoughts exactly.

[SasaS]

Double that scoreline. We'll be through.

[3 Stacks]

Koulibaly is an exceptional defender. He's their VvD. We need to swarm and press him or he'll keep us at arms length. Against PSG he had all their forwards in his pocket.

[Luckyhillkop]

Once, a great man said “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow morning in the Uefa Cup".

 

C'mon, we can do this! 3-0 to us. 

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Anything less than broken windows to their team bus on the way in is a bad start.

 

I’d go the other way. Get everyone to hide as their bus is coming so they drive down an eerily empty Anfield Rd before going into the stadium. Also have some seemingly hastily abandoned cars around. And papers scattering in the wind. Maybe some unidentifiable raw meat and pigs blood lying here and there.

 

That would fuck with their heads. 

[sir roger]

16 minutes ago, Luckyhillkop said:

Once, a great man said “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow morning in the Uefa Cup".

 

C'mon, we can do this! 3-0 to us. 

Lose and we might not even be in the No-hoper

[sir roger]

17 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/329594-liverpool-napoli-team-news-klopp-ancelotti

 

Liverpool came through Saturday's win over AFC Bournemouth without incurring any fresh injury concerns, and Sadio Mane is fit to start versus Napoli.

 

Jürgen Klopp has also confirmed that Adam Lallana is available for Tuesday’s crucial Champions League tie despite the knock to the head he sustained at the Vitality Stadium, with Dejan Lovren to be assessed.

 

Mane came off the bench for the final 25 minutes on the south coast after missing last week’s victory at Burnley due to a foot problem, and Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com on Monday: “Sadio can deal with the pain obviously - it looked like that in Bournemouth, so that’s cool. It’s good enough that we can consider him at least.

 

“We have two sessions still to come - we’ll train tomorrow morning as well. That’s very important. We have the meeting to do. In the squad there is nothing really serious after the game, that’s good.”

 

On Lovren, who trained with his teammates on Monday afternoon, the manager added: “We will see how Dejan is doing. Yesterday he was out on the pitch and looked quite well. Squad-wise, [there is] no bad news at least.

 

“[Lallana] looked fine. Nobody told me differently. He was running yesterday.”

 

Dominic Solanke and Nathaniel Clyne have recently been sidelined with injuries, while Joe Gomez (leg) is definitely out along with long-term absentees Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (knee) and Rhian Brewster (ankle).

 

Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti, meanwhile, has an almost fully-fit squad to choose from for a match that Liverpool must win 1-0 or by two clear goals to be guaranteed of a place in the last 16.

 

Only Simone Verdi (muscle) and Vlad Chiriches (knee) are not in contention to play for the visitors at Anfield.

 

The Serie A side know a draw is enough to qualify but, asked for his approach to the tie, Ancelotti said: “I don’t know what Liverpool are planning to do. But we all know how they play, particularly at home, their intensity in these kinds of games.

 

“We’ll try to maintain a high level of intensity for as long as possible. We haven’t come here to sit back. The two important phases in a game of football are attack and defence - we need to get both of them right.”

So that’s where Simon Green went 

[Strontium]

I feel this is an appropriate time to point out that we have lost 3 games in this group and Napoli have lost 0. They are no pushovers.

[sir roger]

It may also be an appropriate time to point out

a It is us

b In Europe

[Bjornebye]

Fairly heavy police presence near Queen Sq at half 2 when I was leaving town earlier. 

[SasaS]

17 minutes ago, sir roger said:

It may also be an appropriate time to point out

a It is us

b In Europe

c at home

[Bjornebye]

Our starting 11 last time we played these at Anfield

 

[TheHowieLama]

Look at the quality in the middle of the park there for us.

[Strontium]

Still, I'd take a repeat of the result from that game.

[Chairman Meow]

21 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Our starting 11 last time we played these at Anfield

 

That's fucking grim.