Jurgen Klopp was pleased with the punishment decision that helped Napoli into a 2-0 triumph on his Liverpool side in their Champions League group stage tie.
The well-placed referee gave a spot-kick, and also the VAR official decided against the choice, although jose Callejon went in the Liverpool box below minimal pressure out of Andrew Robertson.
That enabled Dries Mertens to open the scoring in 12 yards, in a match Liverpool had been largely cozy in, and they added another goal to seal victory.
“For me it’s very clear and obvious, no penalty, since Callejon jumps until he’s any contact,” Klopp said. “But we cannot alter that we have to be crucial . We didn’t end off although we did in a lot of minutes, we played with lots of football.
“In the second half we had this wild match, we were running, they had been conducting. They’ve killed everybody on the pitch, and started controlling and then we’ve conceded a penalty.
“Of course that does not help and I’ve seen it today, I don’t think that is a punishment.”
Klopp was also unhappy with his misfiring ahead, whose play pressured only two actual saves out of Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret and was way below their usual standard.
“We commanded it in moments, but we’d not enough chances in the end,” Klopp said. “Everything you saw was a lot of admiration from either side, we both defended well and every ball we dropped, or they dropped, was instantly a hazard.
“The previous ball is easily the most difficult ball anyway, and if you are not in the appropriate circumstances it’s even more difficult. And therefore there were moments once we must have done better, for sure.”
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