Klopp not worried about Manchester City, this is the opposition that really scares Liverpool

When you want to look at a team's grit, a team's champion's cast, you go to the Champions League, a cruel competition like few others, but extremely fair, as it penalises mistakes more than any other trophy. There, nerves have to be of the utmost importance. On the other hand, when you want to draw conclusions about regularity and planning, you look at the league. And it is because of both that Napoli look so good, in fact, that the Diego Armando Maradona is the only stadium with a club with a clean sheet in the Champions League, in whose group are Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool, and the leader of their competition, Serie A.

It is true that in the Champions League, Real Madrid are the reigning champions, are already in the last 16 of the Champions League and are sure to be a tough opponent in the knockout rounds. It is also true that, a priori, there are stronger teams than the Italians, such as Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, but so far the Neapolitans can boast something that the rest of the teams do not have: they are the most effective in Europe.

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In the Italian league, they beat reigning champions AC Milan (1-2), and since then they have won 4-2 against Ajax Amsterdam, 4-1 against Cremonese, 6-1 against Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands and 3-1 against Torino. Luciano Spalleti has managed to do just that, to build a team and the truth is that several reasons, from effectiveness to solidity, place Maradona's side at the top of the continent for the moment.

This consistency is reflected in the distribution of goals. It is true that Khvicha Kvaratskheli is the sensation, with 7 goals, but there are also up to four players with 4 or more goals so far, such as Giovani Simeone (4), Giacomo Raspadori (5), Matteo Politano (4), Piotr Zielinsky (4), where the great management of minutes in the block also stands out, with up to thirteen players with more than 500 accumulated minutes of competition so far this season.

Napoli are shining

All in all, Napoli and Diego Armando Maradona rule Europe again, at least for now, with the permission of Real Madrid, the champions, and Jürgen Klopp, their rivals and last finalist. Liverpool will have to face the Italians in the Champions League Group A decider.