Liverpool boss Klopp: Luton goal should not have stood

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6 Nov 2023 • 8:17 AM MYT
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp hit out at Luton's defensive tactics after Sunday's 1-1 draw.

Klopp insists his team deserved to win the game and says Luton should've been punished for the way they defend.

He stated:" I told the boys at half-time, good, good, here good, be calm, be patient, stay patient, stuff like this and then if we would now put counter-pressing into that it would be really helpful because we have much more possession phases, longer possession phases, [and] they are less organised in these moments. Then we all know, we saw these games before, the situation doesn't get clearer with time. If we score one and then little gaps open up.

"With a 0-0 and the idea of Luton, which is fine and no problem with that set-pieces and counter-attacks they stay in the game, so you have to make sure beforehand that they are not in the game anymore, but they were in the game.

"They had the counter-attack, scored the goal and I think everybody knows we should have won that ball or shouldn't have lost the ball at the 18-yard line. Then they scored, we scored the equaliser. I respect a lot what they do but the way they defend set-pieces defensively if you watch it back, that's wrestling.

: It's not on the edge, it's on the wrong side, but they don't get punished, so why should they change it? So, fine. That was a little bit the discussion around that, that we thought it could have been not when they scored the goal, before when Virgil's opponent brought him down. I think it was a good point score in wrestling, I am not sure. That's it."