This is a massive week for Liverpool as they face both Napoli and Manchester City .
Any game in Italy is going to be difficult. We know their style, Italian teams are usually tough to break down.
Napoli are second seeds in the group too so it’ll be a very hard game.
Carlo Ancelotti is vastly experienced and knows European competition like the back of his hand.
We’ve had a few famous clashes with him so it’ll be interesting to see his tactics. I’m sure he won’t go gung-ho against Liverpool, they’ll go about trying to stop us.
We’ve got to do things and be professional. A draw wouldn’t be the worst result in the world, we’ve still got to play them at home. Just go out there and do what we did last year to the likes of Maribor, Spartak Moscow and Porto.
They’ll be wary of us though, they’ll know what we’re all about .
You want to come out of the game still unbeaten and we want to top the group to make things easier for us down the line. To do that, we need to have at least four points minimum by the final whistle in Naples.
We’ll go over there and go about it the way we always go about it, trying to win the game. That’s how Jurgen Klopp does it.
Clash of the titans
It’s going to be a cracker against Manchester City, isn’t it? It always is.
It’s always a fantastic game because it’s two teams that won’t change their tactics. Man City will come and have a go at us because that’s how the only way they know how to play.
We know how we’ll play and we know how to beat them. We’ve proven it last year, beating them three times. They’ll be wary of us and if we play as well as we can and the front three click, we’ve got every chance of getting the three points and going into the international break top of the Premier League table.
If you’re going to finish the season ahead of Manchester City, if you’re going to win the league, you need to get four points from the two games with them. You’ll take three but if you can get six, it gives you one hell of a chance.
The two games can go a long way to deciding the destination of the title because they’re not going to make many mistakes and drop many points between now and the end of the season. This is a prime example of making an early statement and making home advantage count.
