It would not have been the scenario Joel Matip would have wished for his Champions League comeback.
With his Liverpool team-mates crumbling to dust at the Maradona Stadium - and fortunate to be just three goals down after one of the worst 45-minute periods of Jurgen Klopp's entire Anfield tenure - Matip was sent on for his first European appearance since Benfica visited in mid-April.
Joe Gomez was the player who was hooked, taken off after a number of glaring individual errors on his own first start at centre-back in the continent's premier competition for 12 months. In truth, while the 25-year-old's lapses in concentration and mistakes in possession were exposed on a chastening evening in Naples, Klopp could have picked virtually any of his starting 11 to have made way at the interval.
