The German’s feisty side came out at Anfield on Sunday,and while West Bromwich Albion’s physicality was an issue, so was the way his team failed to deal with itJrgen Klopp called it an “explosion, or the surest thing to say about the first monumental combustion of his Liverpool career considering neither he nor Tony Pulis divulged the background details of Sunday’s outburst against West Bromwich Albion – is that it will not be the last. It would be hypocritical to propose we are appalled at the prospect of more.
Klopp certainly crossed a line in goading the Albion bench following Divock Origi’s 96th-minute equaliser for Liverpool. Performing a satisfactory impression of a gorilla beating its chest,the German coach confronted Pulis and West Brom’s backroom team in a frenzy that transferred to the Anfield crowd for the remaining minutes and fuelled Liverpool’s push for an unlikely winner. Having expressed bemusement at a lack of belief among the Anfield crowd against Crystal Palace only five weeks previously, that in itself was a small victory in Klopp’s eyes and reason for acclaiming the Kop with his players after Sunday’s final whistle.
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Source: theguardian.com