The last Liverpool team to play in Napoli was managed by Roy Hodgson, led in attack by David Ngog and had Christian Poulsen supposedly pulling the strings in central midfield. Images of that line-up from 2010 had done the rounds on social media this week to underline how far Liverpool have travelled in the intervening eight years. All true, of course, but the present day Liverpool served up an inferior display to that drab goalless draw of yesteryear to suffer deserved defeat to Carlo Ancelotti’s side.
Lorenzo Insigne converted José Callejón’s low cross in the 90th minute to send the home crowd into raptures and condemn Jürgen Klopp’s visitors to the defeat they had appeared to have escaped when Dries Mertens hit the crossbar moments before. Liverpool were uncharacteristically subdued and error-strewn throughout. The positive start yielded by that dramatic victory over Paris Saint-Germain has been squandered.
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