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Napoli's Dries Mertens Mocks Liverpool's 'This Is Anfield' Sign Before UCL Clash

Napoli forward Dries Mertens has taunted Liverpool ahead of Tuesday's clutch UEFA Champions League Group C match on Merseyside and mocked his opponents' famous "This Is Anfield" sign.

The sign is notorious for welcoming visiting players to Liverpool's turf, but Mertens told The Times' Alyson Rudd (h/t The Independent) he was nonplussed when seeing it for the first time as a Utrecht player in 2010:

"My strongest memory is that they have a sign saying 'This is Anfield' and everyone was talking about it, so I was thinking it's very big, you know.