Jurgen Klopp let himself down in a big way on Sky Sports last night!
He is often portrayed by himself and others as the joker in the Anfield pack but his comments about last night’s refereeing and his assistants disasters was way out of order.
He accepted – it seems – that the Liverpool goal was offside but then went out of his way to claim that Kevin Friend had tried to balance things up in the second by favouring the Irons.
It’s an argument which has been used a million times before but it’s never true and notably so given events in the dying seconds last night.
The visitors broke through and Divock Origi – clearly two yards offside at best – failed to net perhaps the easiest chance of the night.
If that’s favouring the Hammers then the Liverpool boss needs at the very best to have a serious rethink about his comment which frankly smacks of the absurd.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Klopp said of Kevin Friend’s performance: “There were so many situations where it was 50-50 or 60-40… [he gave a] free-kick for the other team.
As a human being I know if I make a big mistake in the first half I don’t want to open the gap even more.”
Sour grapes and totally unworthy of the bloke.
Quite a few times recently Klopp seems to have lost his cool, everyone seems to admire his his enthusiasm, but that is not what we see all the time! as last night and running on the pitch after a goal may be scored in injury time. For me I am not sure why a Manager has to wear a tracksuit and be dressed more like a fan in baseball cap. just a personal; opinion.
We could have made the same complaint over other decisions, apart from the Liverpool goal. The officiating was just very poor, enabling both sides to complain. But tbh if you have been gifted a goal that blatantly the best thing you can do is zip it.
Need to listen in slow-motion to actually understand what he’s saying.
Sounds like a German Kenny Dalgleish….
He’s usually quite listenable (?), except when he’s on a whinge…..
Noble’s interview, on the other hand, was like a breath of fresh air…..honest, straightforward and funny.
He’s gone down massively in my estimation. He should try managing with our injury list. To say the officials were biased towards us is just ridiculous. Did he not watch the game?
Mane has scored two “goals! against us this season, both of them offside! What’s Klopp got to complain about?
The thing we should discuss is that the offsides were not marginal they were both clearly a mile offside. I don’t know for sure but it would lead you to question if the officials are as bent as a nine bob note because that’s how it appears . Just saying .
I don’t have any problem with him, his comments are the same as all the other managers when they are feeling the heat, he is trying to deflect to distract that his team are playing poorly. If you look at his clubs they can’t sustain that level of effort across an entire season. if he were able to buy an entirely new squad each January he would probably win the league but he can’t and thats why Liverpool will be lucky if they win the league, I think they will finish 3rd behind City and Tottenham depending on whether Tottenham can avoid their usual choking finish, they are another who run out of gas in the finishing straight. Pellegrini had it right with his comments, Klopp teams are used to winning with offside goals, bring on VAR COYI !!!
He mAde himself look stupid…
I think Klop embarrassed himself a little bit with post match comments on tv and subsequent post match press conference. It seems he is suffering from a big dose of sour grapes. We didn’t threaten them and on another day could have quite easily won that game as we had the better chances. Quite what his complaints about the referee were about is beyond me.
Sorry meant to say that we did threaten them with our play, not didn’t.