Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp dissatisfied with penalty decision on draw against Leicester | Football News

Liverpool misses an opportunity to extend their lead to seven points, but five ahead of Man City at the top of the Premier League

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits he was disappointed after being forced to draw Leicester City in Anfield

Jurgen Klopp displeased with several refereeing decisions after Liverpool missed the opportunity to spare seven points over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League.

Sadio Mane opened the scoring against Leicester with just two minutes and two seconds remaining on snowy Anfield, but league leaders failed to capitalize as Harry Maguire earned the Foxes a point in the first period.

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Maguire's strike came just six minutes after the English intern had seen yellow and not red for Sadio Mane, before Ricardo Pereira escaped Martin Atkinson's punishment after leading Naby Keita into the midway zone. in the second half.

"They had opportunities and of course, it's going to be 1-1," Klopp said.

"Even when I think everyone is in agreement that there might have been a penalty, maybe it should have been. I do not know why this n & # 39; 39, was not a penalty and then we have the situation with Maguire.

"This is now the second time in a match where an attacker on my team, someone is shooting him down the middle line and we treat him as if it was I do not know where.

"He would not have been alone through [on goal] because Mohamed Salah would have been around him. It's a two against [Kasper] Schmeichel, if it's not a real chance and a goal situation, then I do not know.

"But again, Leicester has had opportunities and has nothing to do with the situation around that, it's an arbitration case and we now have to accept the outcome, which is n & # 39; Is not a problem. "

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Liverpool's lead at the top could be reduced to two points before his next match in West Ham, with City ahead of him.

This means that the champions have the opportunity to put pressure on the title race, but Klopp insists that he remains focused on the problems he controls.

"We have one more point than before," he added. "It's not exactly what we wanted, but everything is fine.

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"I know that at the moment I do not think anyone else has been hurt, which obviously helps us a lot and now we have a few days to prepare West Ham and we leave, then Bournemouth and we let's go away and all that.

"That's what we do without counting the points and hoping for gaps between us and the other teams – we have to win our football matches.

"It did not happen tonight, so we're not happy about that, I do not see it as if we've lost points.

"We take what we have and tonight it's a point and it's more than what we had before the game, so it's okay." Am I now too happy? No, of course not, we wanted to win this game. "

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