Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp makes furious claim over Manchester United penalty record

Liverpool head coach Jurgen Klopp questioned Manchester United's latest penalty record after his side's 1-0 defeat to Southampton on Monday night. The Reds dropped points for the third match in a row over the festive period as an early strike from Danny Ings secured victory for the Saints. Klopp was speaking after his side witnessed two unsuccessful spot-kick appeals on Monday night, first for a perceived foul on Sadio Mane in the box and secondly when defender Jack Stephens appeared to handle a Georginio Wijnaldum shot. “If anybody ever again will say Sadio Mane is a ‘diver’, it’s the biggest joke in the world,” Klopp told  Sky Sports . “This boy tries to stay on his feet with all he has. In two situations… other teams will get a penalty for it, let me say it like this. Then the handball, I don’t know who will explain that to me. “We had a really good view of it [the Mane incident], and it looked like a clear penalty. I turned around to the fourth official and asked if it was going to be checked, he said it already had been and was not a penalty. That’s 100 per cent true, and now someone wants to tell me how quick they had it in all these different angles. "Last year, there was a penalty against Leicester when people said Sadio Mane goes down too easily – if he goes down easily, we would have had a penalty in this game and the last game, a stonewall penalty, but what Andre Marriner did with Sadio Mane I’m not sure if that’s okay. "The boy tried everything, had a few great challenges with Walker-Peters. But there were a lot of situations which should have been free-kicks. The last one, when he goes down, you see that back and in the box he hits him in the end with his left foot, that’s a penalty. “We cannot change. I hear now that Manchester United had more penalties in two years than I had in five-and-a-half years. I’ve no idea if that’s my fault, or how that can happen. “But it’s no excuse for the performance. We cannot change it, we have to respect the decisions. But we can change our performance. That’s our focus now.” Source- Manchester Evening News Join us on Telegram!

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