IT’S SERIE-OUS
FROM FRONT PAGE stuff and that means sometimes I have to try two times, sometimes three times, sometimes four times – and Napoli could be four times.”
Liverpool open their Champions League campaign facing the Serie A side for the fifth time in four years.
Klopp added: “What do we have to do? Play better than in the previous three games.
“That would be very helpful because we didn’t play particularly well when we came here.
“One reason is because Napoli are pretty strong.”
Liverpool could have Thiago back this evening after he returned to training from a damaged hamstring.
But skipper Jordan Henderson is facing at least four more weeks out with the hamstring injury he picked up against Newcastle seven days ago.
That means he will also miss England’s Nations League clashes with Italy and Germany later this month as well as Liverpool’s game against Chelsea before the international break.
Klopp said: “Hendo, we had the results of the scan and it will be after the international break, I think, he will be back.”
Curtis Jones is also out again after suffering a recurrence of his stress injury to a shinbone.
Liverpool have issued fans with strict advice to be wary in Naples and that they may be “targeted for theft, robbery, or assault”, to not travel alone but stay in their hotels to eat and drink.
Klopp bristled when asked, rather bizarrely, if he feels Naples is dangerous.
He said: “I don’t live a normal life in Napoli. I am protected here, I go to the hotel and now you ask me what I think about Napoli.”