Diego Simeone explains Jurgen Klopp snub as Liverpool boss claims rival was ‘angry’ at him

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Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone has opened up on his decision to snub Jurgen Klopp’s handshake at full-time following Liverpool’s 3-2 win in their Champions League meeting on Tuesday. The game looked as though it was heading for a draw until a late Mohamed Salah penalty snatched all three points for Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano.

But before that, Atletico had been awarded a penalty of their own when referee Daniel Siebert felt Diogo Jota had pushed Jose Maria Gimenez.

However, after consulting the VAR pitchside monitor, Siebert reversed his decision, leaving Simeone furious on the touchline. 

The Atletico boss headed straight for the tunnel at full-time, choosing to ignore Klopp’s handshake attempts, but later insisted it was not intentional. 

“When I’m angry, I respect the situation,” Simeone said in his post-match press conference.

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“I have no problem, I just tend to do that when we lose and I’m not happy.”

Meanwhile, Klopp also played down the incident despite the tension between the two managers. 

“Yeah I know, just wanted to wind me up, I don’t like that but the situation is clear: I wanted to shake his hand, he didn’t want it,” said Klopp.

“His reaction was run, mine [reaction] was not too cool as well but we are both emotional so when I see him next time we will shake hands definitely and nothing happened.

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“He was obviously angry with me, the game, the world, stuff like this, it’s nothing else.”

The Liverpool boss also admitted he didn’t think referee Siebert would overturn his penalty decision.  

“I saw it, our penalty’s a penalty,” he said. “It’s a done penalty.

“I think the other one [Jota’s foul on Gimenez] is not a penalty, but I don’t see it very often when he whistled it and he took it back in that situation.

“I didn’t expect that but it’s the right decision anyway, but I say that is clear.

“The red card was for sure unlucky, but it’s a red card foot in the face and stuff like this. We had a red card like this in the past so that can happen, obviously didn’t want that.

“It was a tough game. Come on, how you win it… I couldn’t care less to be honest, the dirty ones are the really important ones.

“When we are flying we win the games anyway. On a night like this getting three points is really massive.”
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