Both teams finish with a record of five wins and one loss, but the Reds would have needed a four-goal victory to erase their crushing 4-1 loss to the same opponents on Matchday 1.
But the mere fact of having largely ensured their qualification - Ajax Amsterdam, third, has six points - in such a complicated season at the national level, shows that the C1 is decidedly the favorite garden of the English, three times finalists in the last five seasons.
Beating Naples, leader of Serie A and who had fifteen wins and two draws, in all competitions, so far, was no small feat.
The Italians could even have opened the scoring in this game if an endless VAR intervention had not canceled a goal from Leo Ostigard's header for an infinitesimal offside at the start of the second half.
But it was finally a header from a corner by Darwin Nunez, entered during the game, and pushed back by Alex Meret at the feet of Mohamed Salah who made the ball cross the line with a sharp point, five minutes from the end, who released Anfield (1-0, 85th).
In injury time, Nunez even added a second goal, initially canceled for offside before the VAR established that he was in a legal position when Virgil van Dijk headed from a corner that the goalkeeper opponent could once again not control (2-0, 90 + 8)
In the end, Liverpool leave with the biggest smile, even if the draw could reserve a big engine for them in the round of 16.
But by then, a lot of water and a World Cup will have flowed under the bridge.
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