Good evening and welcome to Sports Mole's live text coverage of the Champions League Group C clash between Napoli and Liverpool at the Stadio San Paolo.
The hosts come into this match off the back of a defeat to their main Serie A title rivals Juventus at the weekend, and are looking for their first win in this season's Champions League having drawn with Red Star Belgrade on matchday one.
Liverpool, meanwhile, struck late to beat Paris Saint-Germain in their first group game, but have since seen their perfect start to the season come to an end.
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Group C is arguably the most competitive in this season's Champions League, and with PSG current cruising against Red Star Belgrade in the group's other game, tonight's result takes on even more importance for both of these sides.
We will have a closer look a little later, but first let's check out the team news...
Well, we'll start with the visitors and the headline news as far as they are concerned is that captain Jordan Henderson misses out tonight - perhaps with one eye on the weekend showdown with Manchester City at Anfield.
Klopp has protected Henderson during the opening stages of the season, with the England international spending time in and out of the team, but he is replaced this evening by Naby Keita in midfield.
That means another start for the indefatigable James Milner - who registered a tournament-record nine assists to help Liverpool to the final last season - while Georginio Wijnaldum once again starts in that midfield trio too.
The striker netted in both games against former club Chelsea last week and also opened the scoring against PSG on matchday one, having started ahead of Roberto Firmino in that game. Sturridge may begin to find himself used more regularly, but for now he has to make do with a place on the bench once again.
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There have been claims that the front three have not been at their best so far this season, but it is worth remembering that last term they established themselves as the most prolific Champions League strikeforce of all time, each netting 10 goals in this competition.
The Egyptian winger just seems to be lacking that golden final touch which served him so well en route to 44 goals in 2017-18, although he does still have three to his name already this term. Salah has also directly contributed to three goals in his last two starts against Napoli, with both of those coming during his time with Roma.
Milik has three goals in six Serie A appearances so far this season - having only managed five in each of his first two full campaigns with the club, so he is enjoying a really good start to the season and will be a threat tonight.
Insigne is Napoli's top scorer so far this season with five goals, which puts him already just three behind his total from the whole of last season. Indeed, Insigne has scored three times since Napoli's first outing in this year's competition.
Maksimovic and Hamsik are the two players to come back into the side from the team that started against Red Star Belgrade in their opening group game.
Of course, trips to Eastern Europe are notoriously difficult, but the fact that PSG are currently beating Red Star 4-0 - albeit at home - shows that they could be two valuable points Napoli dropped last time out in this competition.
The draw with Red Star was also only the third time that they have failed to score in their last 29 Champions League outings, so they will be eager to rediscover their goalscoring touch tonight - and they will probably need it against Liverpool.
Napoli again sit second in the standings after seven games of this season, but they are already six points adrift of Juventus after losing to the champions 3-1 in Turin on Saturday.
That is not a fate which has befallen Napoli since December, when incidentally their first loss came against Juventus and their second was in the Champions League - losing 2-1 to Feyenoord.
Last season they finished third in their group - winning two of three home games but losing to Manchester City - before going on to be knocked out in last 32 of the Europa League by RB Leipzig.
Ancelotti has lifted this trophy three times as a boss - a tally only Bob Paisley and Zinedine Zidane can match - and Napoli are the eighth team he has led in it, extending his own record.
The Italian has also never lost a Champions League against Liverpool, winning three of the previous four, although the drawn exception was that famous night in Istanbul when Liverpool came from three goals down to win on penalties in the 2005 final.
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The Partenopei are, however, unbeaten in their last eight home matches across all competitions stretching back to March, winning all but one of those including all three so far this season.
Indeed, Liverpool scored a record 22 goals in seven Champions League away games last season - an average of more than three per game. They did lose their last European away outing of the campaign, though, with Roma winning on the night but not doing enough to progress through to the final on aggregate.
The Reds are unbeaten in four away games so far this season, meanwhile, winning three of those with the only draw coming in Saturday's match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Hazard's goal looked to have set Chelsea on course for a valuable three points against their fellow title hopefuls, but Daniel Sturridge came off the bench to score a stunning late equaliser to at least keep Liverpool unbeaten.
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Chelsea are the only other team still to be unbeaten after seven games of the season, and they will certainly be interested spectators when Liverpool host Manchester City in their top-of-the-table clash on Sunday - a mouth-watering contest between two of Europe's best attacking teams at the moment.
The Reds overcame the significant test of PSG at Anfield and, in truth, the Reds should have won a lot more comfortably than they did. PSG gave them a late scare by coming from two goals down, but Firmino's stoppage-time winner sealed a deserved victory.
Liverpool should have beaten Tottenham and PSG by a much healthier margin last month, and even on Saturday they had the chances to take the game away from Chelsea only to then find themselves needing a late equaliser.
Liverpool beat Man City three times out of four last season, but they cannot afford to let their focus desert this match given the quality of opponent that they are up against tonight.
This is an incredibly difficult one to call; if Liverpool click and suddenly find their form then they have the ability to win, but Napoli also have a strong squad and will fancy their chances tonight.
We are going to go down the middle for a 2-2 draw, though.
SPORTS MOLE SAYS: 2-2
The match in Naples ended goalless on that occasion, but there was plenty of drama at Anfield when Steven Gerrard scored a hat-trick in the final 15 minutes - including goals in the 88th and 89th minutes - to seal a come-from-behind 3-1 win.
Counting only competition fixtures, though, Liverpool have only lost two of their last eight away games against Italian opposition - one of which came in their most recent Champions League outing on the road.
The hosts also have a good omen in the dugout, with Ancelotti having beaten Klopp in their only previous managerial meeting when the Italian led Real Madrid and Klopp was in charge of Borussia Dortmund.
NAPOLI STARTING XI: Ospina; Maksimovic, Albiol, Koulibaly, Rui; Allan, Hamsik, Ruiz; Cellejon, Milik, Insigne
LIVERPOOL STARTING XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Milner, Wijnaldum, Keita; Salah, Firmino, Mane
The earlier games, meanwhile, saw PSG run out 6-1 winners against Red Star and Schalke beat Lokomotiv Moscow 1-0.
Also in that group, PSV have taken the lead against Inter Milan, while Atletico Madrid are now also in front against Club Brugge.
Napoli have had the one clear chance of the night so far, but goalmouth action has been very few and far between and hopefully we will see an improvement in the coming 45 minutes.
The in-form striker drilled his effort towards the bottom far corner, but it bobbled narrowly wide of the target.
The midfielder - making his Champions League debut for the club - went down clutching his back after what had been a poor start to the game, and he ended up needing to be stretchered off in a worrying moment for the Reds.
Napoli have just about edged the possession stats in this match so far, while Liverpool have failed to register a single shot on target in the first half for only the second time so far in 2018.
Plenty more match stats can be found by clicking here.
Dortmund also lead Monaco, which means this is not the only goalless game of the night!
A flare from the home end has just been thrown at the away end. Thankfully, it dropped in the netting just in front of the Liverpool fans.#LFC
— James Pearce (@JamesPearceEcho) October 3, 2018
Rui whips a delightful ball into the box which Mertens meets from just six yards out with a flying volley, but he crashes his effort against the bar!
Moments later a follow-up effort flies over the crossbar - which is still shaking - and Liverpool are able to reset. They got away with one there!
It is a devastating more from the Italian as Callejon collects the ball on the right flank before delivering a low cross into the box which is beyond Alisson and turned home from close range by Insigne, who simply could not miss.
In truth, the Reds can have no complaints at the final results - even if the manner in which it happened was hard to take - as they never really tested David Ospina in the Napoli goal throughout.
Thank you very much for joining Sports Mole for tonight's match as Napoli strike late to beat Liverpool and blow Group C wide open. I will leave you with our match report, and be sure to stick around for reaction too.
From me, though, it is goodbye for now!
