Liverpool kick off the defence of their Champions League title against Napoli this evening at Stadio San Paolo – and we have picked out three key match-ups in the Group E opener.
The fifth competitive meeting between the clubs, it will be the third in just the last 12 months after they faced off in the group stage of the European Cup last year.
Those meetings produced a 1-0 win apiece for Jürgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti’s sides, and these three individual battles could be influential in settling their latest clash…
Kalidou Koulibaly v Mohamed Salah
That Alisson Becker save from Arkadiusz Milik aside, it was the defining moment of Liverpool and Napoli’s Anfield meeting last December, and therefore one of the defining moments of the Reds’ entire Champions League adventure in 2018-19.