Klopp: We’ll be positive in vital game

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists his side go into their must-win Champions League encounter at home to Napoli tonight not fearful of conceding - but well aware of the implications.

After losing three away matches in their group for the first time, the Reds have to beat their visitors 1-0 or by two clear goals to qualify for the knockout stage.

“You don’t have a situation like this 20 times in your career, that’s why I think it makes sense that our approach before a game will be completely normal,” he said.

“We don’t want to concede always, that’s how it is, and we want to win, that is also how it is. The rest we will see during the game.

“We need to be really active, very focused, very in the game but it’s not that we are afraid of conceding goals before the game starts.

“They (Napoli) should have to work very hard for any chance and then we still have the opportunity to save it. And on the other side, we have to score.”

Liverpool have kept 14 clean sheets in their last 18 home matches in all competitions and have scored in 10 of their home meetings against Italian opposition – with Roma in 2001 the only team to keep them at bay.

“There is a big job to do but the boys have played many times and pretty good as well.

“We know how to be solid and be active,” added Klopp.