Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has lashed out at Bayern Munich players, suggesting they were playing for a draw, by resorting to time wasting during the latter stages of their 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie on Tuesday night.
Despite both teams possessing world-class attacking players in their teams, chances were rare in a tightly contested match at Anfield.
It leaves the return leg at the Allianz Arena in three weeks finely poised.
Speaking to BT Sport after the game, Klopp said: “Bayern is kind of in a trouble [mimics bunny ears] and they get really serious let me say it like this. That’s how it is. If they’d been full of confidence tonight and played easy football we would have had more space but we didn’t have.
“Both centre-half pairings had a lot of the ball and played around, both teams were waiting for the trigger when you can press and stuff like that, so that’s really intense for the front three and pretty much for everybody so not a lot of things happened.
“We had our moments but in these moments you have to score, that’s how it is and then the game changes completely but because nobody scored… and then you saw in the last couple of minutes Bayern was shooting the ball away and had cramps here and there so it was an intense game for both sides.
“It was not a game you will remember in 20 years let me say it like this.”
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