Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists he and Steven Gerrard were fine after their 1-0 win against Aston Villa.
A Mohamed Salah penalty made the difference on the day.
Klopp said: "He said congratulations and I said thank you. We won the game, it's now not about that we really have to talk a lot. Nothing will come between him and me. But around the games we are both pretty focused.
"That's the idea of this game, that you can be the best friend with somebody and when you play against each other you want to beat him anyway. I had this situation with David Wagner, for example, in the past. The whole fuss around it was absolutely right but there is one person it was not so easy [for] and that's Stevie. He is a Liverpool legend – we cannot change that now, we shouldn't try to.
"They did really well, they obviously fought really hard for a result here today, pushed by Stevie. It's all fine and I like as well that we at the end got the three points anyway.'
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