Spalletti is aware of Liverpool's threats ahead of Napoli's CL opener

will host the Reds at Stadio Maradona for their

opener on Wednesday.

Arriving with a sling to hold his right arm,

revealed the car accident he had on Sunday. However, he is hopeful to be at the pitch tomorrow as his side takes on

's side. The

Napoli

boss told his pre-match conference:

“I had an accident on Sunday while I was coming here for Sirigu and Demme. I suffered a fracture of the collarbone and underwent surgery in Milan yesterday.

“I managed to return to Naples tonight with a friend. I missed yesterday’s training session but now it’s all good, I have my captain here to back me,” he said smiling referring to Giovanni Di Lorenzo close to him.

“I thank the mole of Castel Volturno that leaked the news, there are people living for this otherwise they have no space in the media. You’ll be seeing me with this sling for a while now, for at least a month.”

On the availability of the injured players Osimhen and

, Spalletti said:

“Lozano is available for selection, he carried out the full session today with regards to Osimhen yesterday he experienced some pain, so he didn’t train yesterday and trained separately today.

“Tomorrow he will train with the group provided he feels better than today. Tomorrow, if he feels up for it, he will try and shoot, try to do a bit more with the ball and if he has a positive feeling about that, like this morning, he will be available for selection.”

Unbeaten in their opening five

games of the season, Napoli is just two points behind the early fore-runner Atalanta. The Napoli boss is fully aware of

threats despite their poor beginning to their

season. He added: “

The Champions League is like a theme park, there is different music in the dressing room, some players have different tracks for this competition, there is excitement and you can hear different sounds from the dressing room. This is a reward for the great campaign we had last season.

“When you think you’ve done your job perfectly and carried out every single task right to the letter these [Liverpool] players can cause you problems, so you need to be switched on 100% of time. You need to be able to anticipate anything happening.

“These [Napoli] players are showing that they are a team who will get the Stadio Maradona to fall in love once again because they train well, they have passion for football, for these colours and for their teammates as a whole. I am convinced we’ll produce a big performance tomorrow, similar to what we showed against Lazio in our last game.”

Asked whether he would be happy for a draw against

Liverpool

,

Spaletti

said: “

If we were to do that it would limit what we showed in the last game. As we know Lazio have a lot of top players, we went to Rome trying to win that game even if we know it’s not an easy place where to get a result.

“We are back in the Champions League after a while and we face one of the most iconic teams in the competition, but we want to produce a performance up to standard, we won’t want to go to the pitch to get praise and compliments, we want to try to win the game and this is the signal we’ll try to send out. Like after scoring the second goal against Lazio, I made two attacking subs trying to score the third goal to protect the lead.

“When you play against Liverpool, you need to be up to the standard, they play a brand of total football. They shift the ball quickly between the centre-backs and the full-backs, I compared the date of Lazio-Napoli and Everton-Liverpool.

“In our match, there were 30 throw-ins, they had double that amount because they play open trying to stretch the pitch and maximise all of that. They try to force one vs. ones with Luis Diaz and Mo Salah and that shows the approach that Liverpool take to the game. They try to suffocate you, they don’t let you breathe.

“They constantly try to keep your head below water. If you try to squeeze them high up the pitch, they play the ball over the top, if they try to sit back, that’s when shift it wide get it to the byline and cut it back. They have a belief, they are well aware of what top side they are.”

“Tomorrow night, when the Champions League anthem comes to an end, they’ll be able to hear the crowd saying ‘The Champions’ as far as Anfield because the Maradona crowd show the passion they have for this team and this city,” he said.

“The love that they have for this football team. When we cross the street, it’s impossible not to pick up from this message, this feeling of love that the fans and the citizens have. It’s almost injected into your veins.”

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