Brendan Rodgers reacts strongly to Jurgen Klopp’s comments

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Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah picked up an ankle injury against Leicester City.

Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers has told The Mirror that he thinks Jurgen Klopp’s comments about Hamza Choudhury were ‘over the top’.

The Foxes travelled to take on Liverpool before the international, and slipped to a controversial defeat with James Milner scoring a late penalty.

Leicester felt aggrieved by the decision, but the flow of the game meant Liverpool probably deserved all three points, but even the penalty wasn’t the big talking point.

Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah was hacked down by Leicester midfielder Choudhury, suffering an ankle injury in the process, which resulted in him being substituted.

Salah had the international break to recover but still didn’t return to face Manchester United on Sunday, but Liverpool hope to have him back against Genk tonight.

Klopp was raging with the tackle, telling the Liverpool Echo that he felt Choudhury’s tackle was ‘too dangerous’, and called for more protection.

This isn’t exactly the first time Choudhury has been criticised either. He was given a straight red card for England Under-21’s against France over the summer for a rash lunge, and was slammed for a challenge on Newcastle’s Matt Ritchie in August; he hasn’t played again since.

Now, Leicester boss Rodgers had hit back at his Liverpool successor, by saying the reaction was over the top, adding that just because Salah is a great player, doesn’t mean he can’t be tackled.

“The reaction to Hamza was right over the top for me,” said Rodgers. “The boy went in to make a tackle. Mo Salah is a world-class player but you can tackle him. It wasn’t even a bad tackle. You have to ensure they stay aggressive because that is their game, without overstepping the line. If you look at the team we play in an aggressive but sporting way.”

“Young Hamza is one of those lads that play on the limit and is fighting for his career. His strength is recovering the ball and retrieving the ball, which he is very good at, and he is learning other aspects of his game. The only way is constant work and talking with him,” he added.