Piotr Zielinski was a double goal scoring hero for Napoli on a day that his side humbled Liverpool and dealt a 4-1 hammer blow to our side.
Speaking after his team’s historic victory, the 28-year-old said: ‘It was the perfect match – we dominated it. I’m delighted with my double. We were up against world-class players and we beat them, not just in the result: we outplayed them.
‘I don’t think Liverpool had an off game; it’s just that we were extraordinary today’.
It’s refreshing to maybe take the insight from the Italians, who are not crediting our poor performance to their victory, rather their brilliant one on a wonderful night (for them).
We have not performed well in Naples under Jurgen Klopp and this has come during some of our most successful campaigns in recent memory.
There’s no doubting that we have had a bad start to the campaign and our performance inside the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium was far below par but perhaps there can be some room for admitting that our opposition played well.
Luciano Spalletti’s team made it hard for our players to move the ball and the intense pressing felt like something we normally do to others, making it very difficult for us to play our game.
We need a big upturn in form and results soon, let’s hope the Reds can sort this bad run of form out quickly.
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