Share
21st January 2017
03:05pm GMT
But the Liverpool defence had a collective brain fart and Gylfi Sigurdsson slotted home with 16-minutes to go. Swansea held-on and moved out of the relegation zone.
In search of an equaliser, Klopp sent-on Joel Matip in stoppage-time. The 6'5 central defender went forward and Liverpool attempted to hit long passes towards him and pick-up the second ball.
Such direct tactics are common when a team is trying to salvage something from a game, and Klopp was arguably correct to instruct his team to play direct.
However, some found it ironic that, just a few days after appearing to criticise of Manchester United's "long-balls", the Liverpool manager was employing an identical tactic.
"It is so intense. They play long balls, it was a wild game. There was a lot of action in the last few minutes," Klopp said following the 1-1 draw against United at Old Trafford last Sunday.
Those comments were always going to be mentioned after his team went direct in the final minutes of the Swansea game.
https://twitter.com/888sport/status/822813163225804800?s=08
https://twitter.com/Seerat_Asghar/status/822812357999165440
https://twitter.com/JohnBrewinESPN/status/822812841380028417
https://twitter.com/LiamPaulCanning/status/822816218969149440
https://twitter.com/Sean_Lunt/status/822811558891950081
https://twitter.com/Caddies/status/822810335438667776
https://twitter.com/richardajkeys/status/822811474989084672
https://twitter.com/Football__Tweet/status/822813673299308545
https://twitter.com/RichArrowsmith/status/822811411424407552
https://twitter.com/AlexShawESPN/status/822813848814153728
https://twitter.com/Georgestanden1/status/822818715246936064
Catch up with this week's episode of 888sport Football Friday Live
Explore more on these topics:
