Jurgen Klopp believes Leicester City midfielder Hamza Choudhury should have been sent off for a “dangerous as hell” tackle on Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah.
Salah was forced off minutes before the the end of the Reds' dramatic 2-1 Premier League win at Anfield on Saturday after being caught on the left ankle by a poor challenge from Choudhury.
Referee Chris Kavanagh brandished a yellow card to the Leicester substitute, who had dived in to stop Salah on a counter-attack.
The Egyptian limped away from Anfield after the game and is now expected to undergo a scan on the injury,
And Klopp was unimpressed by both Choudhury's challenge and the failure to dismiss the 22-year-old England under-21 international.
“It was just a challenge which I really don’t understand,” said the Reds boss. “I don't understand how he can do it, because the ball is far away.
“The player is in full sprint, to bring him down without the ball around, for me there is only one colour card. I might be the only one who sees it like this, but it is dangerous as hell.
“I don’t want to cause the boy any problems but he has to calm down. It's not the first time. He's a super player, he's had super development at Leicester, but these kind of challenges... no.
“It's not an obvious one where everyone says it's a red. But from a football point of view, the ball is not a close, I don't know how it cannot be (a red card).”
Asked if it was the kind of challenge that cause injury, Klopp added: “I don't have to be a football manager, I only need two eyes to see that. You don't need to be educated.”
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers, meanwhile, has leapt to the defence of his player and believes it was not a red-card offence.
“I don’t think it was a really bad challenge,” said the former Liverpool boss. “Mohamed Salah is coming inside and the speed he travels and Hamza is coming back.
“I have tried to look at it but the camera is quite a way away. The emotion of the game, it might seem worse than it was.
“He is an honest boy, Hamza, he makes challenges but I don’t think there was anything malicious.”
