Daily Digest: Liverpool face do-or-die tie against Napoli at Anfield

Liverpool go into their final Champions League group stage game against Napoli tonight (midnight UAE time) with their hopes of qualifying for the knockout round hanging in the balance.

In third place in their group, Liverpool need to win either 1-0 or by two clear goals to qualify, with any other result enough to take Napoli through in their stead.

Newly installed as Premier League leaders after this weekend’s results, Jurgen Klopp’s side now face another reckoning against Carlo Ancelotti’s well-drilled Napoli.

Read our the talking points ahead of the game.

FOOTBALL

Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde has confirmed Luis Suarez will not play in their final Champions League Group B game with Tottenham tonight (midnight UAE time).

Barca are already through to the knockout stages as group winners and will not risk Suarez following a recent knee injury.

Valverde was not so open over whether Lionel Messi will play against Spurs, who have to match Inter Milan’s result against PSV to join the Spanish club in the last 16.

Meanwhile, Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino is not going to pay too much attention to Barcelona’s teamsheet ahead of their do-or-die Champions League game at the Nou Camp.

CRICKET

India captain Virat Kohli on Monday labelled India’s first Test win in Australia in a decade as “very special” and added the result gave his side momentum in their bid for a series victory.

The visitors held on to a tense 31-run win in the opening Test in Adelaide on the fifth day after setting Australia a target of 323, which would have been a record chase at the venue.

It was a big moment in Kohli’s captaincy as the Indians had last tasted success on Australian soil in Perth in 2008. Read what Kohli had to say here.

FEATURE OF THE DAY

Liverpool are the new Premier League leaders but their Champions League campaign hangs in the balance against Napoli, says our man Aditya Devavrat.

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