LIVERPOOL’S win against Napoli on Tuesday night means they have now faced two of the best teams in Europe at Anfield within the last month, and defeated them both.

The first of these games came against Manchester City in mid-October, seeing off Pep Guardiola’s side thanks to a Mohamed Salah goal.

Napoli had not lost a game all season and were one of the continent's form teams as they travelled to Merseyside for this final game in Champions League Group A.

They top Serie A by five points and, in Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, have one of the outstanding players in Europe at this moment in time in the ranks.

But goals from Salah and Darwin Nunez inflicted Napoli’s first defeat of the season. 

The result had little effect on the outcome of the group, which Luciano Spalletti’s side top thanks to a better goal difference in their head to heads with Liverpool, and the group standings were all but decided prior to this game, but the Italian side did include their Kvaratskhelia and highly rated Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen from the start.

The Georgian troubled Trent Alexander-Arnold early on, but Jurgen Klopp’s team were set up as such that the winger wasn’t able to create many chances, even if he managed to beat one or two Liverpool players in individual battles.

His best moment of creativity came from a free kick, which was headed home by Norwegian defender Leo Ostigard, but eventually ruled out for offside.

“Napoli is a real force at the moment,” said Klopp. “So it could have been extremely difficult for us tonight, but the boys played a really good game and that’s why it was not.

“Consistency and stability are what we [now] need. Tonight we will take the right conclusions from this game, even when the next one will be a completely different game for different reasons.

“We will take the good stuff out of this game and then start the next fight against Tottenham.”

Tottenham themselves made it through to the Champions League knockout stages, topping their group, unlike Liverpool who settle for second in theirs.

Klopp’s side will certainly need to keep up the kind of resilience they showed against Napoli if they are to get something from north London on Sunday afternoon.