Klopp downplays Salah substitute reaction – Click Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp has downplayed Mohamed Salah’s response in Liverpool’s defeat to Chelsea.

Salah was withdrawn on 62 minutes of Thursday’s sport at Anfield, the fifth that the Premier League champions have lost consecutively on home soil.

The Egyptian minimize a annoyed determine after he made means for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, with the Reds making an attempt to claw again a one-goal deficit.

However Klopp insists that he has no downside with gamers exhibiting disappointment and defined the explanation for Salah’s substitution was a precautionary one.

He mentioned: “I’m completely satisfied when the boys look disillusioned.

“That’s not an issue. I didn’t see it from Mo. The rationale for the sub was I might have modified different gamers as effectively.

“However the motive was he seemed like he felt the depth and I didn’t wish to threat him. That’s all.

“It’s actually uncommon and normally Mo seems to be surprisingly contemporary till the top.

“I assumed he didn’t look contemporary any extra. The final two or three years don’t have anything to do with that.”

The Liverpool supervisor additionally revealed he delivered a frank evaluation to his gamers after they fell 4 factors off the tempo within the race for a prime 4 end.

“I advised the boys what I noticed tonight,” added Klopp.

“It’s not that we go for any form of excuses on this second. These video games are determined in moments and to get these moments again it’s important to battle.

“In some moments it’s important to battle on a unique degree. That’s what I advised the boys.

“It’s not about techniques or one thing like that. It’s actually about being resilient. It’s about coronary heart. I don’t say the boys didn’t present coronary heart.

“However we speak concerning the final decisive 2, 3, 4 per cent and it by no means occurred that we are going to begin blaming the circumstances. That’s simply not the case.

“We had workforce. A extremely good workforce on the pitch and we performed in loads of moments good soccer, however not in decisive moments adequate.

“There’s just one particular person or group to criticise [and] that’s me, that’s us.

“That’s what I advised the boys.”