Klopp hit back at the referees and explained his controversy with Tierney

Jurgen Klopp He didn’t take long to respond to the referees statement where the coach had already slipped Liverpool he lied when he criticized the referee Paul Tierney after the match against Tottenham.

Klopp criticized Tierney

The ‘red’ coach complained about the English refereeing, especially about some supposed words when he He was admonished for going to celebrate the 4-3 final in front of the fourth official.

“I don’t really know what he is against us,” Klopp told Sky Sports. “He said there’s no problem, but that can’t be true. I don’t understand how he looks at me… My celebration was unnecessaryOK, but what he told me was wrong when he gave me the yellow card. This is unacceptable”.

Referee’s statement

The English referees published a statement defending their partner while slamming Klopp’s words.

“PGMOL (the organization that groups referees in England) is aware of the comments made by Jürgen Klopp after his team’s game against Tottenham Hotspur. Premier League referees are recorded in all matches by a communication system and Having fully reviewed referee Paul Tierney’s match audio, we can confirm that he acted professionally throughout, including when he booked the Liverpool manager, and we strongly refute any suggestion that those actions were inappropriate said Tierney.“, indicates the PGMOL note.

replied Klopp

After all that happened, Klopp explained what had happened, acknowledged his mistake and reaffirmed his feelings about Tierney’s refereeing.

“The whole situation shouldn’t have happened. It was because of emotion, anger, and that You weren’t a good leader because of the things I did. I was still angry, which led to the way I celebrated,” Klopp began when analyzing the issue.

The German explained that Tierney thought about sending him off, but in the end he showed him the yellow card. “I was yelling, ‘If you don’t, if you don’t,’ which didn’t make much sense. Paul Tierney He approached me and I didn’t wait for a red card. He said: “For me, it’s a red card.” “Red card for what?” I tried to calm down, it didn’t work well and then I went to the interviews,” Klopp revealed.

“Maybe I should say that he told me it was a red card and I didn’t think it was. Other things I said about what I feel about. Paul Tierney refereeing the matches… I’m sure he didn’t mean it, but there is history. Things that have happened in the past, in decisive games, have happened. It was a feeling, nothing more.”

Finally, Klopp clarified that he did not say that Tierney made inappropriate comments to him. “He (Tierney) showed me a yellow and smiled at me. That was it. At the final whistle we went in (in the tunnel) and I tried to calm down and it didn’t work well and I said what I said.”

“The things that Paul Tierney said to me (who said Tierney’s words were unacceptable) were not said by me. I said: “What he told me was wrong” and I thought it was wrong because, in my opinion, it was not a red card.. I understand that I opened the box. Maybe at that moment I should have said: ‘He told me he thought it was a red card and I didn’t think it was a red card’ and then I stopped talking.”