What Ivan Toney told Jurgen Klopp after Brentford vs Liverpool
TNT SportsJurgen Klopp has revealed what was said between him and Ivan Toney after Liverpool’s win at Brentford on Saturday.
Liverpool ensured they will finish the weekend on top of the Premier League table with a comfortable victory in West London, as Darwin Nunez, Alexis Mac Allister, Mo Salah and Cody Gakpo all scored in a 4-1 win.
Brentford’s goal was scored by Toney and the striker spoke to Klopp following the final whistle.
Of Toney, Klopp said: “It’s really tricky to play against him. Am I right [in saying] he’s a Liverpool supporter? He’s not shy in saying that? Then I can admit it as well. We spoke a little bit about that and he wished me good luck with my time after.
“A lot of people said it, a lot of players said it, it’s not necessary but it’s nice… it was a nice conversation.”
The victory for Liverpool came at a cost, as Curtis Jones, Diogo Jota and Nunez were all withdrawn before a ball had been kicked in the second half.
Jones was on crutches after the match after sustaining an apparent ankle injury, while Jota damaged his knee in a worrying-looking collision.
“We have to see how much it costs us – we don’t know that yet,” Klopp said. “Curtis got a knock on the lower part of his shin, or above the ankle. We will see what that means. It was what he felt, but he was not 100 per cent sure. That Curtis cannot play on tells you that it must be something because he would have played on at all costs.
“Diogo looks probably the worst; I didn’t see it back but I heard the pictures didn’t look great as well, so we have to see there.
“Darwin, we took off because he felt really a little but that was obviously today enough to immediately push the brake and that’s what we did, so we took him off and brought Cody on and that worked out really well.”
