Liverpool inflicted on Napoli their first defeat in any competition since April as they won 2-0 at Anfield in the CHampions League.
Mohamed Salah's 85th-minute tap-in handed the Reds a late lead before Darwin Nunez - on as a substitute in the 73rd minute seemingly with a brief to cause as much chaos as possible in the final third - poked home a similar close-range finish in the eighth minute of injury-time. Napoli themselves had a goal chalked off for offside, following a three-minute VAR check, but failed to maintain a consistent period of pressure in a game that lacked intensity until Nunez arrived, which was perhaps not surprising given both teams had already qualified for the knockout stages.
While it was not quite the four clear goals needed to top Group A, last night provided Liverpool with their fifth European win in a row, an immediate bounce back from the 2-1 Premier League defeat at home too Leeds United and a chance to exact some semblance of revenge on Napoli for their opening game-week humiliation in September. And while James Milner came off shortly after receiving a heavy blow to the head, Jurgen Klopp will have been glad to see the likes of Ibrahima Konate and Thiago Alcantara come through unscathed.
