We love Jurgen Klopp. He has moments where he becomes absolutely mental. Whether he's losing his glasses, roaring at fourth officials, or laughing maniacally, he's entertainment.
Which made this afternoon's tussle with Jose Mourinho's Manchester United unmissable. In the end, a Zlatan Ibrahimovic header cancelled out James Milner's early penalty. A draw was probably the fair result.
Klopp is also one of the most animated managers in world football, which is extremely helpful for this website. But following Liverpool's failure to hold onto a 1-0 lead against United, he seemed a little bit disappointed. In the press conference immediately following the game he faced questions as to why he thought the Reds couldn't hold on.
The main target for the German? Poor Marouane Fellaini.
I think over the whole game we were the better side but then you see them come in with the long balls. Fellaini comes on the pitch and it's difficult. 75 minutes dominating the game and then having all the balls bouncing around the 18-yard box.
To be fair to the United team, once you have 6 foot 4 Zlatan Ibrahimovic and 6 foot 3 Marouane Fellaini as targets, what else are you meant to do but put long balls in towards them?
Klopp also defended his decision to hand a Premier League debut to 18 year old Trent Alexander-Arnold in one of the more daunting atmospheres.
You see him coming up against one of the quickest players in the league in Martial and he did well. I didn't want to change two positions because of one injury.
Most entertaining of Klopp's interviews, however, was the one he conducted with BBC Radio 5 Live. He had a fairly simple response to the notion that the game at Old Trafford was decisive for the rest of the season:
Bullshit.
He also wasn't too complimentary about Fellaini in that interview, saying that when the big Belgian was brought on for United "it wasn't football any more".
Ouch.
You can see the full press conference below, with Klopp's Fellaini comments coming early in the video. He also avoids a trap from a journalist cleverly enough.
The draw left Liverpool joint second in the Premier League table, sitting seven points off leaders Chelsea. They head to Plymouth for an FA Cup replay during the week. So maybe the long balls towards Fellaini and Ibra were good preparation.
We highly doubt that Jose will come out with a dossier like Louis Van Gaal.
