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Jurgen Klopp sent off after running down touchline to shout at assistant in win against Man City

Jurgen Klopp gets sent off after running down the touchline to shout at the assistant referee in the Liverpool win against Man City.

It came on the 85th minute, with Salah blatantly pulled to the ground by Silva right in front of the assistant, who gives absolutely nothing.

Home fans are stunned by the decision, but Klopp is seen heading straight down the touchline and fumes, absolutely rages. The next time the ball goes out of play, Taylor went over to him and sent him straight to the stands.

He got a standing ovation as he turned and headed straight down the tunnel, while Silva squared up to both Salah and Van Dijk as it got heated.

Chris Sutton (BBC football expert on BBC Radio 5 Live): How is that not a foul on Salah? It’s ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. I’ve got to say, I have sympathy with Jurgen Klopp because it was a foul on Mo Salah. The assistant referee is three or four yards away!

“Look it was a foul on Mo Salah, absolutely no doubt,” Gary Neville said while commentating for Sky Sports.

“Oh, Bernardo Silva and Salah are having a bit of a to-do. It all comes from that challenge on the corner from Silva on Salah, he just grabs him – how is that not a foul? The assistant referee is in front of it. Jurgen Klopp charges down the touchline, there you go, that’s the red card.

It was in the 76th minute that the deadlock was broken. Alisson did brilliantly from a City free-kick, which he caught and smacked over the halfway line from his six-yard box and isolated Cancelo up against Liverpool’s star man.

He outmuscled the City defender and was clean through on goal.

Just like their previous encounter, Ederson was off his line to meet him. But this time, Salah made no mistake, lifting it just high enough to beat the goalkeeper and find the bottom corner.

Sky Sports’ Gary Neville: “This is special.

“Salah has just reminded us of what world-class looks like.

“The first bit is mesmerising – the turn and strength.”

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Sky Sports: “Result, perfect. Performance, really, really good, in an incredibly intense game.

“We defended at an incredibly high level for 99 minutes almost. They had their moments but especially in the box we did extremely well.

“This was for us obviously big today. We showed up today and that is all we wanted to do.

“City didnt have these counter attack situations, we had them three times. The situation around the goal is just sensational awareness from Alisson and outstanding from Mo. He might miss one but he will not miss two in a similar situation.

“Goals decide the game but there were so many good football moments against what I would say is the best football team isn’t the world.”

On Diogo Jota’s injury: “We miss the next one with Diogo. He felt real pain in that moment but I have no idea how bad it is. If Diogo stays down it is not good.”

On his red card: “In the end, probably deserved, but you cannot have this situation. It is the clearest foul I ever saw in front of the linesman and he is not bothered. It is clear. They just watch the game but we [the managers] are involved.”

On whether Mo Salah was supposed to come off: “No he was not supposed to be off, I wanted to speak to him. I did not know the number showed up, that was not the plan.”

On what the win means: “Three points. We have to recover. Wednesday West ham is coming here and that is the next tough one.

“It was really good, it was the best that could happen here today.”

 

Sky Sports’ Micah Richards:

“You’ve got to give credit to Liverpool, they dug in, the defensive shape was good. City just ran out of ideas.

“We said before, if you keep Kevin De Bruyne quiet and stop those balls going into Haaland, it’ll be difficult.

“City’s wing-backs and the three didn’t really pay off, but fair play to Liverpool.”

Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher:

“I said before the game Liverpool will need organisation and emotion. Organisation would be enough and the crowd dragged them over the line.

“I’ve played in games like that myself where you feel like the world is against you and the team you’re coming up against is on a different level – you have to say Man City are – but I felt Liverpool wouldn’t lose and they’ve gone one better.”

Sky Sports’ Roy Keane:

“Brilliant from Liverpool in terms of finding a way to win. They deserved it, City ran out of ideas but Liverpool hung in and perhaps should’ve scored a little bit earlier.

“They had a big bit of luck with the [disallowed] goal decision, it’s a huge day for them, a massive three points and you couldn’t begrudge them the win.”

Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk tells Sky Sports:

“It means a lot, to get three points – it was always going to be very intense, it’s always been like that in previous years and it was nothing different today.

“We didn’t give much away in the first half, but in the second half we had to defend a bit more and had chances to score more. But we won, that’s the most important thing.

“For both sides, there’s a lot of running, communication, and it’s whoever wants it more. Today we showed a lot of fight.”

Mo Salah on Sky Sports:

“Hopefully it will give us more confidence to win games because the last few weeks we’ve not been at our best. 

“If I miss it’s fine. I start to worry more when there’s no chances for me!”

“We’re still far away from that [the title race]. We don’t have to think about the title at the moment. We need to focus on one game at a time.”

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Sky Sports: “Result, perfect. Performance, really, really good, in an incredibly intense game.

“We defended at an incredibly high level for 99 minutes almost. They had their moments but especially in the box we did extremely well.

“This was for us obviously big today. We showed up today and that is all we wanted to do.

“City didnt have these counter attack situations, we had them three times. The situation around the goal is just sensational awareness from Alisson and outstanding from Mo. He might miss one but he will not miss two in a similar situation.

“Goals decide the game but there were so many good football moments against what I would say is the best football team isn’t the world.”

On Diogo Jota’s injury: “We miss the next one with Diogo. He felt real pain in that moment but I have no idea how bad it is. If Diogo stays down it is not good.”

On his red card: “In the end, probably deserved, but you cannot have this situation. It is the clearest foul I ever saw in front of the linesman and he is not bothered. It is clear. They just watch the game but we [the managers] are involved.”

On whether Mo Salah was supposed to come off: “No he was not supposed to be off, I wanted to speak to him. I did not know the number showed up, that was not the plan.”

On what the win means: “Three points. We have to recover. Wednesday West ham is coming here and that is the next tough one.

“It was really good, it was the best that could happen here today.”

 

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola to BBC Match of the Day: “We did everything, we played really well and created chances. Most of the time we were really good but we made a mistake. They were so clinical and so good.”

On the disallowed goal: “This is Anfield, in the Champions League three or four years ago, and we come here most of the time it happens. We have to make a perfect game and we didn’t, we made a mistake, hopefully in the future we can learn but teams like this, [competing] in the Champions League, it is so tight and they punish you.

“The referee says play on, play on, play on, how many thousand million fouls he has almost given? But the goal was not given. That is the question, so when the referee decides to speak to the mangers, to Jurgen Klopp, to my assistant coach and say ‘I am going to be clear, it happens all the time in that way,’ then you cannot disallow the goal. But if you decide in the first minute fault, fault, fault… But you know, this is Anfield.”

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Opta stats: Liverpool 1-0 Man City

Liverpool are unbeaten across their last 28 Premier League matches at Anfield (W21 L7) since losing six in a row between January and March in 2021.

 Manchester City have lost a Premier League away game for the first time since August 2021 against Spurs, ending what was the longest unbeaten away run in their league history (22 games). This was the fourth longest unbeaten away run in Premier League history.

Pep Guardiola has lost 11 matches against Jürgen Klopp as a manager, at least four more defeats than against any other coach.

Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in 14 goals against Manchester City in all competitions for Liverpool (9 goals, 5 assists), his most against any opponent for the Reds.

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