Napoli vs Liverpool LIVE: Champions League result and final score after Reds routed

Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool face a tricky Champions League test against a Napoli side unbeaten so far this season

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Napoli is the destination for Liverpool’s opening Champions League fixture of the season in what will prove to be a difficult encounter for Jurgen Klopp’s underperforming side. Klopp’s side have lost their last two visits to Naples and were beaten here in 2018 and 2019 whilst also being held to a 1-1 draw with Gli Azzurri at Anfield during the latter campaign.

Liverpool were runners-up in the Champions League last season after losing to Real Madrid in the Paris final but have never failed to reach the knockout rounds under the German boss. However, the Reds have had an indifferent start to their Premier League campaign with just two wins from their opening six games and look far away from their best form.

Meanwhile, Luciano Spalletti’s Napoli have made an excellent start to the season. Despite a summer that saw them lose club legends in Kalidou Koulibaly and Dries Mertens, as well as Lorenzo Insigne and Fabian Ruiz, they are second in Serie A following an unbeaten start. Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia lead a new-look team that has seen them net 12 goals in six games including two in a comeback victory against Lazio last Saturday.

Follow all the action from Napoli vs Liverpool below.

Napoli vs Liverpool

• 49’ - GOAL! Luis Diaz claws one back for Liverpool with a great strike from range (NAP 4-1 LIV)
• 47’ - GOAL! Zielinski scores early in the second half (NAP 4-0 LIV)
• 44’ - GOAL! Giovanni Simeone adds a third on his Champions League debut (NAP 3-0 LIV)
• 31’ - GOAL! Anguissa doubles Napoli’s lead (NAP 2-0 LIV)
• 19’ - SAVE! Alisson denies Osimhen’s penalty to keep Liverpool in the game (NAP 1-0 LIV)
• 5’ - GOAL! Piotr Zielinski puts Napoli in front with a penalty kick (NAP 1-0 LIV)
• Liverpool have lost two most recent away games against Napoli
• Napoli XI: Meret, Di Lorenzo, Kim, Rrahmani, Olivera, Politano, Lobotka, Zambo Anguissa, Kvaratshhelia, Zielinski, Osimhen
• Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Milner, Fabinho, Elliott, Salah, Firmino, Diaz

[7 September 2022 21:29 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

71 mins: Jurgen Klopp looks like a man searching for answers on the sidelines. His team look very vulnerable defensively.

Napoli substitute Hirving Lozano carries the ball into the box from the left before checking inside of Joel Matip and drilling a shot wide of the near post.

[7 September 2022 21:27 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

68 mins: Amir Rrahmani is late with a challenge on Luis Diaz and brings the Liverpool forward down just outside the box over on the left side.

Alexander-Arnold curls the set piece over to the back post and sends it straight out of play. That’s a disappointing pass from the Liverpool right-back.

[7 September 2022 21:23 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

65 mins: Here come Jurgen Klopp’s changes. The Liverpool boss makes three of them and brings on Thiago Alcantara, Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota.

Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and James Milner are the men replaced.

[7 September 2022 21:21 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

62 mins: Save! What a chance for Luis Diaz. Liverpool attack down the right but there’s no way into the box for Harvey Elliott. Instead he lays it back to Trent Alexander-Arnold who fizzes a cross into the middle and finds the leaping Diaz

He whips his head onto the ball and sends a powerful header at goal the Alex Meret palms over the crossbar!

[7 September 2022 21:17 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

59 mins: Darwin Nunez is warming up on the sidelines for Liverpool. They’re going to need him to be on song if he gets on the pitch.

Alexander-Arnold sends the ball down the right side to try and get Salah up the pitch but Kim is across competently and guides the ball out of play.

[7 September 2022 21:14 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

56 mins: Liverpool’s corner comes to nothing but the Reds are starting to push high up the pitch. Napoli are sitting back and keeping them out.

The Reds send the ball over to Luis Diaz on the left but he’s tracked down by Matteo Politano who wins his team a throw in deep in his own half.

[7 September 2022 21:13 · Michael Jones]

Napoli 4-1 Liverpool

53 mins: Mo Salah hasn’t been on it all season, he’s in a terrible run of form and his touch is abandoning him.

He makes a smart run into the box from the right as the ball comes over the top, he tries to bring it down but knocks the ball away from his own body and luckily a Napoli defender boots it behind for a corner.

[7 September 2022 21:10 · Michael Jones]

GOAL! Napoli 4-1 Liverpool (49’, Diaz)⚽️

49 mins: Liverpool get one back!

Luis Diaz sparks hopes of a Liverpool comeback with a swerving, curling effort from 20-yards out that nestles into the back of the net.

Is a magic European night on the cards for the Reds?

[7 September 2022 21:06 · Michael Jones]

GOAL! Napoli 4-0 Liverpool (47’, Zielinski)⚽️

47 mins: Four! Napoli add to their tally within 90 seconds of the second half kicking off.

Liverpool win a corner that comes to Joel Matip who heads it straight at Alex Meret. Napoli restart quickly and work the ball over to the right before sending it into Piotr Zielinski.

He breezes past Virgil van Dijk and shoots forcing Alisson into a sharp save to his right. The ball spills loose though and Zielinski is back onto it, lifting it above the sprawled goalkeeper to score his second of the night.

[7 September 2022 21:05 · Michael Jones]

Second half: Napoli 3-0 Liverpool

Kick off: Liverpool get the ball rolling for the start of the second half. Joel Matip is on for the Reds with Joe Gomez taken off after a torrid first half performance.

Matip must have a knock of some kind or else he would have started the game.