Jose Mourinho has criticised Jurgen Klopp’s exuberant touchline behaviour after Tottenham Hotspur were beaten 2-1 by Liverpool at Anfield.
The Reds returned to the top of the Premier League table at the expense of Spurs following Roberto Firmino’s late header.
Tottenham had looked like securing a point after Son Heung-Min had cancelled out Mohamed Salah’s opener.
Mourinho and Klopp had words on the touchline at full time and the Portuguese later suggested he would not get away with his counterpart’s actions.
He told Amazon Prime: ‘By the way, if I behaved the same way on the touchline like he does, I have no chance to stay there. I’m out one minute after.
‘Come on, that’s animated? That’s animated?’
Asked if the German had overstepped the mark, he added: ‘I’m saying that for some reason, I am different. That’s the only thing I say, and that’s sad.’
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On what was said after the final whistle, Mourinho replied: ‘I told him the best team lost. He disagreed, but that’s his opinion.’
Klopp was mystified when Mourinho’s comments were put to him.
He said: ‘Then my English is worse than I thought. I thought he said to me the better team lost and nothing about my behaviour on the touchline, so I have no idea what it is.’
