Klopp Reveals Why He Decided To Substitute Top Scorer Salah

Jurgen Klopp defended substituting Mohamed Salah early in the second-half of Liverpool’s history-making home defeat by Chelsea, saying he could not ‘risk’ leaving the Premier League’s top scorer on the pitch.

Liverpool have now lost five consecutive games at Anfield for the first time in their history and were chasing an equaliser when Klopp decided to hook Salah after just 62 minutes.

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‘When the boys look disappointed that’s not a problem,’ Klopp said of the substitution and Salah’s reaction.

‘I could have changed other players but he looked in that moment like he felt the intensity and I didn’t want to risk him. That’s all.

‘I’ve known him a long time and Mo usually looks fresh. I didn’t want to risk him. That’s it.’

On the defeat, which made Liverpool the first reigning champions of England to lose five in a row at home, Klopp said: ‘I told the boys what I saw tonight. It’s not about technique or something like that. It’s about being resilient, heart, all these kinds of things.’