Klopp cites Man Utd in penalty critique – Click Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp has highlighted Manchester United’s penalty file in a critique of referee Andre Marriner.

Monday’s loss at Southampton marked a third win-less Premier League outing for Liverpool forward of their January 17 conflict with the Outdated Trafford outfit.

Ought to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s facet keep away from defeat to Burnley subsequent week, the Reds will give up high spot within the league earlier than taking up their arch-rivals.

However regardless of his staff’s sub-par efficiency at St Mary’s, Klopp believes Kyle Walker-Peters’ conflict with Sadio Mane on the hour mark warranted a penalty.

Marriner, the match official, consulted VAR however selected to not award a spot-kick, which left the Liverpool supervisor considerably bemused post-match.

“We had a very good view of it,” mentioned Klopp.

“I circled to the fourth official and mentioned ‘will you verify it?’ and he mentioned ‘we checked it already, no penalty’. That’s the 100 per cent fact.

“Now someone needs to inform me how fast they’d all of the totally different angles, however it’s 100% they checked it already, no pen.

“We had moments final yr after we had the penalty towards Leicester, Sadio Mane was [accused by some people of] happening simple.

“If this boy would go down simple then we’d have had within the final sport [at Newcastle] a stonewall penalty.

“What Andre Marriner did with Sadio Mane tonight, I’m unsure that’s okay, to be sincere.

“The boy tried completely every thing. There have been numerous conditions that ought to have been free-kicks as properly.

“The final state of affairs when he goes down, you see that again, he hits him with the left foot and it’s one other penalty. However we can’t change that now.”

“I heard now that Manchester United have had extra penalties in two years when Ole is there [as manager] than I’ve in five-and-a-half years.

“I don’t know if it’s my fault, I don’t know how that may occur. However it’s no excuse for the efficiency of tonight.

“That’s one thing we will change, and that’s the place we are going to put all the hassle in now.”

Though his facet largely dictated the second half, Klopp needed to wait till the seventy fifth minute for Liverpool’s first registered shot heading in the right direction towards the Saints.

With their win-less run now stretching into the New Yr, the German didn’t shrink back from the panic that their latest downturn in type has induced.

He added: “After all we fear.

“We’re not foolish. We’ve to indicate a response [in the games ahead], 100 per cent. Southampton deserved it; they ran their socks off.

“I do know they’re nice guys, tremendous boys, incredible gamers, however tonight they need to have performed higher. So I get indignant. They know this.

“We don’t need to make it larger than it’s, however it’s massive. It’s primarily my fault, however the boys had a hand as properly, & we’ve to alter that.”