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Liverpool boss Klopp: Cheeky Kvaratskhelia really good - but Alexander-Arnold did well

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praised Trent Alexander-Arnold after their Champions League win against Napoli.

The England fullback faced Napoli star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia on the night.

Klopp said of the match-up: "He's a good player. Both are good players, so it's a really difficult one. I know people will talk about one or two situations when Trent tried to be in front of him and the ball goes through.

"But he is really good, the boy, and really quick and you have to defend him together in these moments. When he has the advantage of the first movement then he is already gone. You have to try to be there in the moment when the ball arrives, but if you cannot do that then you need to be protected because he has speed, he is cheeky, he goes inside, he can go outside, that makes it always really difficult.

"A good player and I thought Trent played a really good game against him, he was really on fire, he was really in, didn't get frustrated by one or two situations where he was second-best, stayed in the game and I liked Trent's game tonight."

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