Undefeated since the start of the season, Liverpool saw their unbeaten streak in the Premier League come to an end at Tottenham (2-1) this weekend. Quickly reduced to ten then nine to eleven after the expulsions of Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota, the Mersey club was on par with the London rival for a long time before collapsing in added time following Joël Matip’s own goal. In addition to the result, the refereeing decisions particularly annoyed the Reds coach. A few days after this refereeing fiasco, the German technician still has not digested the defeat while the audio recording following the valid goal finally refused to Luis Diaz was revealed.
Present in front of the press on the sidelines of the match against Union Saint-Gilloise in the Europa League, Jürgen Klopp simply called for the match between Tottenham and Liverpool to be replayed. “I’m not interested in why things happened the way they did. I saw the result, I saw a goal, we scored. It is important that we really treat it appropriately. I mean the people involved – the referee, the linesman, the fourth official and especially the VAR – didn’t do it on purpose. We must not forget this. Yes it was a mistake. I think there would have been solutions for this. I can say straight away, although some people wouldn’t want me to say it as manager of Liverpool but rather as a footballer, the only outcome should be a replay. It’s like that”declared the former Dortmund coach even if he admitted in passing that “this probably won’t happen”.
