Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has defended club talisman Mohamed Salah, saying that he does not dive to win penalties.
There have been several diving accusations against the Egyptian lately. During Liverpool’s match against Crystal Palace, many thought Salah went down too easily.
However, Jurgen Klopp doesn’t believe so. Klopp said, “This is the first situation where he went down without [a penalty] and you speak about all the other situations as well? The other situations there is nothing to talk about – it is a penalty, done. If this is the first then why do we talk about?
There are other situations, much more obvious situations, that we don’t talk about and nobody is talking about because it’s not [Manchester] City, it’s not [Manchester] United, it’s not Liverpool, it’s not Arsenal or it’s not Chelsea. All the others can do it from time to time and nobody really talks about it. It’s all fine.
All the penalties against him [Salah] were penalties but people handle it like it was halfway diving – it was not. We don’t need blood for a foul in football. That’s all I will say about it. No, I didn’t speak to him about it.”
Liverpool host Leicester City at Anfield tonight. A win for Liverpool will see them take a seven-point lead over Manchester City in the league table.
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