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George Flood

Liverpool vs Napoli: Prediction, tickets, team news, TV live stream, H2H, betting - Champions League preview

Liverpool will hope to seal their place in the last 16 of the Champions League when they take on Napoli tonight.

The reigning European champions currently hold a one-point lead at the summit of Group E after back-to-back victories over Belgian outfit Genk, while domestically they appear on course for a first top-flight title for 30 years following another close win at Crystal Palace that kept their eight-point buffer intact.

Qualification for the first knockout round will be secured if Liverpool overcome Napoli, or Red Bull Salzburg do not beat Genk. Jurgen Klopp's men will clinch the group with a game to spare with a win at Anfield.

Carlo Ancelotti's Napoli will also progress with a victory. The unbeaten Italian giants have won two and drawn two of their four group ties to date, yet languish seventh in Serie A amid reports of a bust-up between players and president Aurelio De Laurentiis.

Napoli have now gone five league matches without a win and were held by AC Milan on Saturday.

Champions League preview

Liverpool vs Napoli
Venue: Anfield
Kick-off time: 8pm GMT, Wednesday, November 27


Prediction: Liverpool 2-1 Napoli

Liverpool are riding high both domestically and on the continent and, as proved again on Saturday, they are becoming specialists at producing narrow victories to keep their formidable momentum rolling.

Napoli, by contrast, appear at a low ebb both on and off the pitch.


Team news

Liverpool: Alisson, Gomez, Lovren, van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Fabinho, Milner, Salah, Firmino, Mane

Subs: Wijnaldum, Adrian, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, Shaqiri, Origi, Alexander-Arnold

Napoli: Meret, Maksimovic, Manolas, Koulibaly, Di Lorenzo, Fabian, Allan, Zielinski, Rui, Lozano, Mertens

Subs: Callejon, Llorente, Elmas, Luperto, Ospina, Younes, Gaetano

Referee: Carlos Del Cerro


Tickets

Click here for more information about tickets.


Betting tips and odds

Match odds

  • Liverpool to win: 2/5
  • Draw: 4/1
  • Napoli to win: 7/1

Correct score

Scoreline Liverpool win Napoli win Draw
1-0 7/1 20/1 0-0 (16/1)
2-0 13/2 40/1 1-1 (17/2)
2-1 13/2 19/1 2-2 (13/1)
3-0 17/2 100/1
Odds provided by Betfair. Click here to place a bet. Odd correct as of November 24.

TV channel and live stream information

The match will be televised live on BT Sport 2 and BT Sport Ultimate, and can be streamed live online via the BT app and website.

You can follow all the action and analysis on Standard Sport's LIVE blog.


Head to head (h2h) results and history

This is the second consecutive year that these two teams have squared off during the group stage of European football's elite club competition.

Both matches were won 1-0 by the home side last term, while in September late goals from Dries Mertens and Fernando Llorente secured a 2-0 win for Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo and saw Liverpool become the first defending champions since 1994 to lose the first match of the following campaign.

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