This week the UEFA Champions League will conclude the 2018-19 group stage. On Tuesday evening, the final matches of the sixth round in groups A-D will take place.
All football fans' eyes will turn to Liverpool on Tuesday evening, where a highly anticipated match between "Liverpool" and "Napoli" players will take place. An unusual situation has arisen in Group C - no team has yet secured a spot in the quarterfinals.
Napoli team is in the first position with 9 points, but there is still a realistic possibility that they might finish the group stage in third place. The stakes of these matches are incredibly high - "Liverpool", last season's tournament finalist, is very close to extending their season in the Europa League.
The match will start at 22:00.
Teams' results:
Both teams are currently demonstrating excellent results. While "Napoli" has faced tough competition from Turin's "Juventus" in their domestic league, "Liverpool" has shown the best results of the last decade in the English Premier League this season.
Jurgen Klopp's team has not tasted defeat in their domestic league this season. The "Reds" have not lost in their last 16 matches and are currently enjoying the top position. The situation in Serie A for "Napoli" is much more challenging - they are trailing behind "Juventus" by eight points.
In their last matches, both teams achieved identical results - over the weekend Mohamed Salah scored a hat-trick, and "Liverpool" won 4-0 against "Bournemouth". With the same result, "Napoli" players celebrated victory at home against "Frosinone".
If "Liverpool" has not yet tasted defeat in the Premier League after 16 rounds, the situation in the UEFA Champions League is somewhat unexpected - the "Reds" have lost three out of five matches. In their first encounter, "Liverpool" defeated PSG, later "Crvena Zvezda", but playing away they suffered defeats all three times.
Interesting facts:
This will be the fourth official match where these two clubs will meet. In this pair, the balance is complete - each team has won once, and one match ended in a draw.
The "Liverpool" team wants to erase their last match against "Napoli" from their memory, which ended in a 0-1 defeat in October - the "Reds" did not manage to take a single shot on goal in the entire 90 minutes. "Liverpool" recorded such statistics for the first time since the match against Lisbon's "Benfica" in 2006.
Despite "Liverpool" having already suffered three defeats in the Champions League this season, their home record is impressive - unbeaten in 18 consecutive matches (W13, D5, L0). The last time they lost at home was in 2014, against Real Madrid.
On the other hand, "Napoli" has not achieved an away victory in six matches in a row - four defeats and two draws. The Italians last tasted victory on opponents' turf in 2016, playing against the same "Benfica".
"Liverpool" has been eliminated from the Champions League after the group stage twice in their last three appearances in the tournament.
Jurgen Klopp's team has been awarded the most penalties in the Champions League this season - three out of four penalty kicks have been successful.
Mohamed Salah, who has been playing in Liverpool for the second year, has scored eight goals in eight Champions League matches at Anfield Stadium. Only Steven Gerrard has scored more goals at this stadium - 14.
