Jose Mourinho & Jurgen Klopp Criticise Offside Rule Ahead Of Crunch Tie!
Jose Mourinho & Jurgen Klopp Criticise Offside Rule Ahead Of Crunch Tie! Tottenham Hotspurs and Liverpool take each other on in an epic game tonight.
Jose Mourinho & Jurgen Klopp Criticise Offside Rule Ahead Of Crunch Tie! Tottenham Hotspurs and Liverpool take each other on in an epic game tonight.
Ahead of the big game, both managers took the time to criticise the PGMOL. The Premier League has altered their offside rules in the wake of controversy last week.
This was after the match between Manchester City and Aston Villa. Rodri of Man City dispossessed the ball from Villa’s Tyrone Mings.
Rodri was coming from an offside position but was deemed to be onside after Mings intentionally played the ball. The rule has since changed and Mourinho criticised the rule changing in the middle of the season.
“I am not happy with it,” Mourinho told the media.
“I believe that now it’s right and previously it was not right. But I don’t think it’s fair that you change a rule during the season.”
Jurgen Klopp has experience of a similar situation for Liverpool. Ironically, they were playing Tottenham in 2018 when the same thing happened.
“Aston Villa will be really happy about it I think…” Klopp said. “My first thought was how can it be that you don’t think about this kind of rule before?
“We had a situation like this years ago, funnily enough it was against Tottenham, when Dejan Lovren hit a situation where he hit the ball and Harry Kane could score.
“So this situation is not the first time that it happened. What is it… an ‘intentional’ touch, is that the right word?
“He went to the ball, that’s why he touched it, but he only went to the ball because Harry Kane was there and he cannot make the decision if he’s offside or not.
“It was years ago that we had that problem. So finally, I would say finally, we changed that. Because it makes no sense.
“All football people, from both sides – the one that scores the goal and the one that concedes the goal – agree. I’m really happy that they finally changed it.” Klopp concluded.