They have no competition in the Champions League. Is Naples a candidate to win the Eared Cup?

The team from the south of the Apennine Peninsula is unrivalled in the millionaire competition so far. With a score of 20::4, they lead Group A, which includes Liverpool, Ajax and Scottish Rangers.

Luciano Spalletti’s charges were the first team in the Champions League to secure a place in the spring play-offs. The Azzurri can replace second-placed Liverpool at the top of Group A after the last match. However, they would have to beat Napoli by at least four goals in their last game.

In the last five meetings with Napoli, Liverpool have won only once, drawn once and left the pitch as losers three times. The overall score in these matches is 8:3 for the Campania side.

Interestingly, Liverpool have never won on Neapolitan soil. The last match, in which Jürgen Klopp’s charges met the Partenopei, went clearly for the Italian team. The Neapolitans won 4-1, handing the Reds their biggest defeat in the Champions League.

But Naples are also doing well in Serie A. It hasn’t lost there since 24 April when it lost 2: 3 to Empoli. With twenty-nine points, they are top of the Italian league. AC Milan are three points ahead of second-placed AC Milan.

Few would have expected the Partenopei to be in great form before the season, following the summer departures of key players Dries Mertens, Fabián Ruiz and Lorenzo Insigne. Among the main figures behind the successful season so far is undoubtedly this season’s Georgian discovery Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

Other important faces of Napoli’s game include Slovakian defensive midfielder Stanislav Lobotka, Argentine striker and son of Atlético Madrid coach Giovanni Simeone and Nigerian marksman Victor Osimhen.

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