Manager Jose Mourinho was annoyed by the touchline behaviour of Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp in Tottenham's 2-1 defeat and suggested he would have been punished for similar actions.

The Reds boss was exuberant during the fiercely fought contest decided by Roberto Firmino's 90th-minute winner.

"If I behaved the same, I've no chance to stay there," Mourinho told Amazon Prime. "I'm out one minute after."

On the suggestion Klopp was animated, he said: "Come on, that's animated?"

Mourinho also told BBC Radio 5 Live: "The referees let him behave the way he does. It's not my problem. I feel sad for it because I cannot do it, but it's just the way it is."

The Portuguese boss spoke to the German after the final whistle. When asked what words were exchanged, Mourinho responded: "I told him [Klopp] the best team lost and he disagreed, but that's his opinion."

Klopp, reacting to Mourinho's comments, told BBC Radio 5 Live: "It was not heated at all. He wasn't happy because he told me the better team lost - and I thought he was joking. But he wasn't. So that's it."

He added that Mourinho did not bring up the topic of his touchline behaviour.

Mohamed Salah gave the home side the lead in front of 2,000 fans at Anfield and Son Heung-min equalised in the first half, before Firmino's late winner.

Spurs' Steven Bergwijn had two good chances to score with only keeper Alisson to beat, and Harry Kane saw his header on goal bounce over the bar.

"A point would have been quite a fair result, but we played to win and had the biggest chances to win it," added Mourinho.

"The game was always under control. I feel it was a very undeserved result, but that's football. At half-time we move a little bit the pieces, but overall the game was always under control and I am very pleased with the performance."

He added that Liverpool didn't look a team that were "[league] champions, European champions, world champions".

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55343127

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Lalasticlala Mynd44

Mourinho is actually getting back to his tactical best. His Spurs side are one of the best I've seen in a long time. Very hard to beat. No wonder he has started dropping wicked quotes again, something we hardly saw during his morale sapping tenure with Man United for example, for when morale is high, the tongue speaketh forth great mysteries
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hmmm

You should be ashamed for saying the best team lost. You are destroying the beauty of football. All your players just sat at the back expecting loose ball to pounce on counter attack. No free flow football at all. Perhaps, statistics is there to judge that liverpool outplayed your team.

His team lost and liverpool were the better team on the day by far.

Mourinho on the news again

The best team actually won.

The better team lost. Tottenham had 4 big chances against Liverpool zero. If they had converted those chances, score would be 4-1. Forget about the ball possession. A draw would have been a fair result!

the best team won bt mou is soo on point abt dt klop comment...assuming he won by a 90 mins goal n he did same, he would be fined or even match ban

The best team actually won.

Dominique front page please