Jurgen Klopp was understandably pissed off after his facet conceded a late objective to lose 2-1 at Tottenham on a controversial night within the capital.
Listed below are the important thing bits from Klopp’s post-Tottenham press convention…
“Actually dangerous” Gakpo information
Cody Gakpo injured himself scoring the Reds’ equaliser shortly earlier than the break and Klopp revealed the ahead was “limping” with a brace after the sport.
Regardless of the unlucky consequence, the boss described Gakpo’s damage as his “greatest downside” to come back from the competition.
The Reds may even be with out Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota for subsequent weekend’s journey to Brighton as they serve suspensions following their respective crimson playing cards, with Klopp calling the absence of all three gamers “actually dangerous.”
Diaz’s offside was naturally on the agenda
The very first query put to the supervisor was in regards to the controversial determination to rule out Luis Diaz‘s first-half strike for offside.
“On the first second I believed it’s clear offside,” Klopp admitted, earlier than including: “at half-time, we knew.”
He added: “it didn’t take extraordinarily lengthy to come back to the conclusion, it was a bit unusual” when discussing VAR’s position within the course of, you possibly can say that once more!
There was reward for his crew’s character
The Reds confirmed nice spirit to remain within the recreation till the demise regardless of being diminished to 9 males by Simon Hooper in contentious circumstances.
Klopp insisted he was “tremendous proud” of his gamers for the willpower they confirmed and that Liverpool remained “actually harmful” regardless of the difficult situations.
He additionally described his squad’s perspective as “second to none” after a degree was harshly stolen from beneath their noses within the last seconds.
Doubtful Jones crimson card
The supervisor touched on Jones’ dismissal with out even being prompted, suggesting that “all people right here within the room” thinks the proper determination was made.
He additionally cheekily indicated that those self same journalists had been misinformed in regards to the incident as a result of they “most likely didn’t” play soccer.
Klopp admitted that the problem regarded “horrendous” in slow-motion however that the foul “wasn’t shut” to being deliberate.
“Deserved” a draw
Joel Matip‘s late personal objective was a sucker punch that ended an amazing Liverpool efficiency, with Klopp sustaining {that a} draw was not more than his facet “deserved.”
The Reds bravely held on to the 1-1 scoreline till nearly the final kick of the sport and had been left with a bitter style regardless of their valiant efforts.
Klopp insisted that he “bought loads out” of the efficiency and that his intention is to “assist the boys really feel that as nicely” regardless of the frustration.
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