Naples got off to a good start in front of their home crowd. After a fine pass from Giovanni di Lorenzo, Victor Osimhen rounded Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson and hit the right outside post from a half-right position and a relatively acute angle – there was not even a minute played.
Only a little later, Naples put the guests in trouble again. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia started on the left and then served Piotr Zielinski in the centre. Alisson defused his shot on the bottom right corner of the goal, but James Milner had previously blocked the shot with his hand. The Spanish referee Carlos del Cerro Grande awarded a penalty after video evidence. Piotr Zielinski coldly converted the penalty kick into the left corner (5th).
The Klopp team seemed overwhelmed, and last season’s Champions League finalists were unable to earn their own degrees. Instead, the “Reds” produced the next penalty kick for the home side: After a fine pass from André-Frank Zambo Anguissa, Osimhen was faster in the penalty area than Virgil van Dijk, who finally got on the Nigerian’s foot in the fight for the ball. Again the VAR tried, again there was the penalty for the home side. This time Osimhen played himself, but failed to Alisson (18th).
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Liverpool now had to react, but apart from a free kick from Trent Alexander-Arnold, which Alex Meret parried (22nd), or a shot from Mohamed Salah from 14 meters (30th), it was almost never necessary.
Naples, on the other hand, kept pushing the accelerator. After a mistake by Joe Gomez, who was completely overwhelmed, Osimhen served Kvaratskhelia, whose shot from 13 meters out was deflected just short of the goal line by van Dijk (28′). Shortly thereafter, the ball was in the goal. Kvaratskhelia once again fooled Gomez on the left and served Zambo Anguissa. After a one-two with Zielinski, the Cameroonian slid a half-left into the near corner from six yards out (31′).
And it got even worse for the English: The outstanding Kvaratskhelia first missed Alexander-Arnold on the left and then duped the unlucky Gomez before he crossed. Giovanni Simeone, who had just come on for the injured Osimhen, only had to put his foot down in the center (44′).
The flood of goals didn’t stop in the second round either. After a pass from Zambo Anguissa, Zielinski scored in the second attempt from close range against Alisson (47′). Less than three minutes later, Luis Díaz plucked up courage and sank the ball from 16 meters in the lower right corner (49th) – the connection for the “Reds”.
It was also Díaz who missed the next good chance for Liverpool: His header from ten meters was powerful but not well placed (62nd).
As a result, the guests tried hard, but the LFC did not manage to score. So it remained with the harsh but well deserved 1:4 defeat at the start of the new Champions League season.
The voices:
Andrew Robertson (FC Liverpool): “We were way too open. You can’t come to a place like this and not be compact. They were by far the better team. Too often they had space to run towards us and cause us problems. When you’re in the Champions League away you can’t be that open. We need to get back to basics and be compact. We deserved this result. The way we opened up, they found so many spaces. It was like they had one extra man. You have to be ready to fight. We weren’t close enough to our man. We have to wake up and wake up fast because we can’t perform like that.”
Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool Manager): “It’s tough. It’s not difficult to explain when you see the game. First of all, Napoli played very well and we didn’t. The two penalties are a bit unfortunate. We were never really in the game. We weren’t compact enough, neither on defense nor on offense. We were just too wide apart. It was all pretty obvious why that is, I can’t say right now. I have to think about it a bit. We do have bad first halves We’ve played but we don’t always concede three goals. It looks a bit like we have to reinvent ourselves. But the difficult thing is we have to do it in the middle of the season. We’re playing Wolverhampton in three days. But we have to Finding ways to play better on all levels. We’re not playing well enough right now, it’s pretty obvious. That’s why we’re losing games.”
The tweet about the game:
After the recent sackings of coaches, almost anything really seems possible.
That caught the eye: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia – “Kvaradona”
40 years after Diego Armando Maradona, SSC Napoli has a new star in the football sky in its ranks. In Serie A, the 21-year-old is already in second place in the top scorer table. The newcomer from Georgia switched to SSC Napoli for just ten million euros in the summer – he was the outstanding man against Liverpool’s star ensemble, especially in the first half. On the left he made Trent Alexander-Arnold and pathetic Joe Gomez look really bad time and time again. Although the Georgian did not score his own goal, he was directly involved in the creation of the first penalty, and he prepared the interim 3-0. Naples can look forward to the coming years.
Statistics: 3
For the third time in the last five seasons, the two teams meet in the group stage of the premier league – for the third time SSC Napoli wins their home game against Liverpool.
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