NAPOLI MANAGER, CARLO ANCELOTTI, SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE / LIVERPOOL TRAINING / NAPOLI TRAINING AT ANFIELD
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, UK (DECEMBER 10, 2018) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
LIVERPOOL PLAYERS (INCLUDING VIRGIL VAN DIJK) RUN OUT TO TRAIN
KLOPP WATCHING TRAINING
Obviously I don't know what Liverpool are planning on doing tomorrow. We all know how they play particularly when they're playing at home. The intensity with which they play in these games but I do know what we'll be doing and, yeah, we'll try and maintain a high level intensity insofar as is possible and for as long as possible as well. Of course, we haven't come here to sit back. We've come here to play our own game which is what we've always done - sometimes we've won, sometimes we've lost, sometimes we've drawn but the fact of the matter is that they're are two important phases in football - there's the attack and the defence and we need to get both of them right I think."
NAPOLI PLAYERS WARMING UP
ANCELOTTI
Napoli and Liverpool trained on Monday (December 10) ahead of their crucial Champions League clash this week.
The Italian side visit last season's finalists looking for a repeat of their victory over the English team earlier this season.
On that occasion a late Lorenzo Insigne winner saw Napoli claim the win, but manager Carlo Ancelotti knows his side face a difficult task at the atmospheric Anfield stadium,
Liverpool are high on confidence after a 4-0 weekend win over Bournemouth sent them top of the Premier League above Pep Guardiola's Manchester City. A Mo Salah hat-trick was also a welcome sight for manager Juergen Klopp.
The two sides meet on Tuesday (December 11) with Napoli top of the group and Liverpool needing to win 1-0 or by two clear goals in order to guarantee progression into the knockout stage.
Senegalese forward Sadio Mane is in line to feature having recovered from a foot injury and was able to make a second-half substitute in Liverpool's 4-0 win over Bournemouth which took them to the top of the Premier League on Saturday.
Napoli also comes into Tuesday's game off the back of a win having beat Frosinone 4-0 over the weekend and are unbeaten in their last 12 matches.
French side Paris St. Germain play Red Star Belgrade in the other game in the group.
