Jurgen Klopp responded to remarks he made before his Liverpool team defeated Union Saint-Gilloise in the Europa League.Jurgen
Klopp has explained his remarks in relation to Liverpool’s contentious weekend loss to Tottenham Hotspur.
The German expressed his opinion that the match against Spurs should be re-played after Luis Diaz had an incorrect goal incorrectly disallowed for offside after VAR failed to intervene despite ruling it was a goal back at Stockley Park during his pre-match press conference prior to the Reds’ Europa League matchup with Union Saint-Gilloise.
Diogo Jota scored Liverpool’s second goal in their 2-0 victory against Union after receiving a red card against Tottenham. This helped Liverpool put the drama from the previous weekend behind them.
Despite his position on a rematch, Klopp highlighted that he and his team have already moved on from the defeat in North London and are entirely focused on the matchup with the leaders of Belgium’s premier division on Thursday night.
“Very good, how should he (Jota) deal with it?” the Liverpool boss told reporters. “So I knew it will be difficult, when yesterday I spoke about the other game (Tottenham), you proved me, again, everybody, how the world is.
“I think everybody here heard what I said but everybody understood something else. That’s okay. But if I made the impression yesterday that I was still in the game against Tottenham, I was not at all.
“That is long ago and we are over that, that’s fine and Diogo is over it as well. And Joel (Matip, who scored an own goal against Tottenham) could have played tonight because he is over it as well. That’s all fine.
“We are not children or whatever, we just had a few questions to answer and did that and that’s it.
“From a focus point of view, it was not a problem to focus on the game. In the game it was a problem to keep being focused because that’s how it looked a little bit.
“We got a bit sluggish, I didn’t like that too much but that was not with Diogo or any of the team to do with the last game or the last week. That’s the challenge in football anyways.”