The Premier League is on fire. With three dates remaining until the top football competition in England ends, the fight for first position continues. Although several teams still have to play some postponed games, there are three entertainers seeking the English league title: Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool bid to win the championship.
This Saturday, the team Anfield They faced West Ham and could only rescue a draw (2-2) on their visit to London, which took them away from the top, since they were two points behind the Gunners (77 to 75) who still have to play their match in the day. But beyond this, at the end of the game there was a scandalous situation between two Liverpool stars.
Seconds before the locals tied, Mo Salah was preparing to enter the field of play when there was a heated exchange with Jürgen Klopp which included gestures from the Egyptian striker and a dialogue between the footballer and his coach. It’s more, Darwin Nunezwho was part of a triple change that the coach decided, had to intervene to dissuade his teammate in the middle of the confrontation.
After what happened, in addition to the statements of both protagonists after the duel in the London Olympic stadium, A video was leaked with a scene that could suggest what motivated the altercation between Klopp and Salah to start. According to the newspaper The Sun in England, some images that have the record of the TV network Bein Sports They show how the historic Liverpool attacker delays greeting the German coach just as he approaches to shake his hand.
Immediately afterwards, in the video that takes the scene from one of the stands and in which you can see the backs of the two involved in the incident along with the fourth referee, and the other two players about to enter the match -Núñez and Joseph Gomez Luis Díaz, Alexander-Arnold and Wataru Endo entered the field – the exchange of words and gestures of the Egyptian towards Klopp are recorded.
After the fight, The video shows a restless Salah, who stayed on the other side of the judge in charge of showing the sign with the numbers of the players entering and leaving. What’s more, the images also recorded everyone’s reactions to West Ham’s equalizer in the 82nd minute of the match and the one who complained the most about the equality was the footballer who was born in the Egyptian town of Nagrig.
What happened after the game? Salah did not want to stop with the press but he left an explosive sentence: “There will be fire here today if I speak”. A journalist asked him: “Fire?”, to which Mo replied: “Yes, of course.” The video was recorded by the chronicler of ESPN Joao Castelo-Branco, who reported that the 31-year-old forward was somewhat upset because he came on late in the match and that the coach was upset because he took too long to prepare to enter the field.
For his part, Klopp also gave his version of the events. “If I can say what we said? No, but we already talked about it in the locker room. It is done”. In addition, he opened up about his team’s aspirations in the final stretch of the Premier League: “To be honest, I’m not in the mood to talk about that. We had to win here, we knew it and we didn’t, now we have a little time until the next game. “We will try to prepare the boys again and we will do it again,” he said in statements to TNT Sports.
It must be remembered that the German coach announced that at the end of the season he will leave his position after eight seasons at the helm of the Anfield team. “I’m very disappointed, obviously. I think everyone can see that only one team could win the game, and it’s us, with the opportunities we created, with the possession we had, with all the things we did. It was difficult at the end of a period of four games in 10 days, but I think the players did very well,” he concluded in his dialogue with the press in London.
