Manuel Pellegrini feels no sympathy for Jurgen Klopp

Pellegrini angry with offside goal which put his Hammers side behind (C) -Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

West Ham United manager Manuel Pellegrini aimed a jibe at Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp after Monday night’s 1-1 draw, with the hammers boss expressing “Klopp is used to winning with offside goals.”

This issue comes from the last time the two met in a high profile match, six years ago German Klopp’s Dortmund side beat Pellegrini’s Malaga 3-2 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Dortmund scores two goals in injury time with it later announced that the last goal, scored by defender Felipe Santana shouldn’t have stood as four BVB players were in an offside position. That goal denied Malaga a historic Semi-final place.

In the match last night it took an equaliser from attacker Michail Antonio to stop the Anfield based club from opening a larger gap at the top of the table.

Antonio’s goal came after Sadio Mané’s opener was controversially allowed to stand despite James Milner being in an offside position while playing the ball to the Senegalese winger.

The assistant referee also failed to raise his flag late on which saw Liverpool’s Belgian striker Divock Origi almost benefit from the decision. Thankfully for Pellegrini and the fans inside the London Stadium, Origi fired straight at hammers ‘keeper Lukasz Fabianski.

Chilean Pellegrini spoke in his press conference clearly not over the decision in the past:

“Klopp is used to winning with offside goals, he beat me against Malaga with a goal seven metres offside – so he cannot complain about anything.”

“Today they scored a goal one-metre offside. And in the last minute with Origi in front of the linesman, again one metre offside.”

Before the game, the West Ham manager made it clear that he wanted to win for his former club Manchester City with a statement announcing “I am a fan of Manchester City also.”