Champions League: Liverpool face Naples, “not a game to turn around a lot”, according to Klopp

Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp estimated on Monday that the last group match in the Champions League against Napoli this Tuesday evening (9:00 p.m.) would not allow him to “spin a lot“, despite the Reds’ busy schedule. Second in Pool A three points behind the Italians, Liverpool have little chance of dislodging them from first place and securing home advantage in the second leg in round of 16, for which they have already qualified.

“The question is not even whether we should win 4-0, we want to win this match, of course, that’s clear, but the score doesn’t matter at the moment“, further assured the coach whose team relapsed against Leeds, who ended more than five years of invincibility for the Reds at Anfield in the league on Saturday (2-1).

The German also assured that he was not obsessed with first place or driven by a feeling of revenge after the sinking of the first leg. “The most important thing in the Champions League is to get out of the group stage and qualify for the knockout stage, that’s what we did and we’ll see from there“, he decided.

Matip package, Konaté in balance

Klopp also indicated that he would only choose his starting XI “later today or tomorrow (Tuesday) morning“. “I don’t know exactly where the players are who played against Leeds“, he acknowledged, while specifying that the central defender Joel Matip was forfeited for this match and that the French Ibrahima Konaté was “an optionto debut against Napoli.