Jurgen Klopp joked he has “no idea” about football’s rules after Liverpool’s entertaining 2-2 draw with Brighton.
Simon Adingra gave the Seagulls the lead at the Amex Stadium, before Mohamed Salah scored a quickfire brace ahead of half-time to turn the match around in the space of five minutes. Lewis Dunk struck late on though as both sides had to settle for a point.
The second of Salah’s goals came from the penalty spot, after Pascal Gross dragged Dominik Szoboszlai to the ground in the penalty box having lost the ball. Despite it being a fairly cynical intervention, and one that stopped Szoboszlai from having a relatively sumple finish, Gross was not even booked.
There was an argument that the Brighton man could well have been sent-off, but Klopp had no issue with that particular decision after the match.
“I don’t know - I really have no idea,” Klopp told Sky Sports.
“I thought when the foul is in the penalty box, then it’s a yellow card. If it would have been outside, then a red. I don’t know - don’t talk to me about the rules. I take what I get.”
Liverpool were beaten twice in the space of a couple of weeks at the Amex back in January, and came into this match off the back of last weekend’s controversial defeat to Tottenham.
Brighton’s opening goal came from an Alexis Mac Allister error, and Alisson will feel he could have then kept the effort out, before Andy Robertson failed to clear the free-kick that Dunk turned in from close range.
Klopp insisted the manner of those goals was not a source of great frustration for him, believing there were plenty of positives for his side to take.
“If we are a little bit better today, and I think we could have been better, we should have won the game,” Klopp said.
“In our good moments we didn’t score enough and Brighton give us problems but they didn’t create a lot. Each goal is frustrating, so who cares about how.”
