Liverpool vs Napoli: ‘Teams that fight the power!’ What the papers are saying

Liverpool take on Napoli in the Champions League on Tuesday night, this is what the nationals are saying about the game.

We keep on getting treated to these games after the group stages last season and two rounds of preseason friendlies, and hopefully this time it’ll be a little bit less stressful.

The Italians nearly consigned the Reds to an early exit from the competition, but Alisson Becker produced the goods and the rest is history.

But now Liverpool are going into the clash with five wins from five in the Premier League, the experienced gained from 2018/2019 and a team that’s maintained the hunger to do it all again.

That makes the Reds a target, and that’s something the Daily Mail have written about as they ran quotes from Trent Alexander-Arnold.

‘We’ve got a big target on our backs now’: Trent Alexander-Arnold admits Liverpool have become the hunted after Champions League triumph – Daily Mail

Jurgen Klopp is trying to behave as if things haven’t changed but they have, wrote Dominic King, as the new European champions have become the hunted.

Liverpool have been the top team in Europe since Klopp took over the reigns, said King, but the team will need to forget their triumph and knuckle down because teams will be gunning for them. Thankfully, Alexander-Arnold knows.

Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool land in Italy intent on defending their crown – The Guardian

Andy Hunter wrote that the imagine that people liked to portray of the Reds as ‘nearly men’ is now gone. Klopp put the 1-0 loss to Napoli last season down to a failure to listen and appreciate tactics. You can be sure that won’t happen again.

Liverpool and Naples: football meccas, underdog cities, political islands – The Athletic

These two sides are super close in terms of the ideologies that drive them and Simon Hughes compared how the rest of the country (England and Italy) treats and views Liverpool and Napoli and finds a lot in common.