Burnley boss Sean Dyche has hit back at comments made by Jurgen Klopp over the weekend.
Liverpool claimed a 2-0 win over the Clarets in their Premier League clash at Anfield on Saturday afternoon, maintaining their 100 per cent start to the campaign after their first two matches.
Diogo Jota and Sadio Mane got the goals for the Reds, who will now get ready to face Chelsea at home next weekend.
After the final whistle, Klopp was critical of some of the challenges from a couple of Burnley players during the match, naming two of them.
Klopp told BT Sport: "If you like that sort of thing, watch wrestling."
He added: "We always had to be ready for a proper fight and we were today.
"You saw these challenges with [Ashley] Barnes and [Chris] Wood and Virgil [van Dijk] and Joel [Matip]. I'm not 100 per cent if officials are going in the right direction with these decisions.
"It's like we're going 10 to 15 years backwards. The rules are like they are, but you cannot defend these situations.
"The message now is let the game flow, but nobody exactly knows what that means.
'This is the football we want to see but it's just too dangerous."
Dyche said he didn’t have an issue with Klopp’s opinion, but did have a problem with the Liverpool boss naming two of his players.
The Burnley boss went on to argue why he disagreed with Klopp’s opinion about the way the game is being played.
"Every manager has the right to have their say, he has certainly had his," Dyche told LancsLive , when asked about Klopp’s comments.
"I think across football it seems to me the feedback has been considerably the opposite to that.
"You have a referee there (Mike Dean) of 800-900 games who didn’t give a card out so it is quite bizarre when you look at like that, just factually, how he can suggest there was some untoward challenges.
"My main disappointment is not the view of the game, I think every manager, every coach, every pundit, every fan has the view of a game.
"My disappointment is that he is name-checking players and there is absolutely no need to do that.
"We have professional players who have worked very, very hard to get to where they have got to and the implication of them being untoward in some of their challenges is wrong.
"I think it is inappropriate and it is not something I do myself. I very rarely, if ever, mentioned individuals. I might imply some things but I don’t name them, I don’t name other managers or very rarely. I certainly don’t go on about other team’s styles and how they go about it so I think there is a balance in my view.
"Overall I think most people around football and most voices around football have all suggested that there was nothing in the game of any mention.
"My overview is that I am not worried about protection of players because I think players get protected to a level which is unbelievable in my history of the game and football, and rightly so in some cases.
"My worry is that he is questioning that a team shouldn’t do everything they can to win a game within the laws, which we clearly did because there wasn’t a single card.
"So if fans, and I don’t believe they do, but if fans want a game there is not people giving their lot, not people showing some kind of physicality to win a game, I would be surprised if there are fans who want that, including the Liverpool fans.
"I know the history of Liverpool, I was a fan as a kid, I still am but more distantly and you don’t have to go far into the annuls of Liverpool’s history to suggest they had a few players who liked to make sure they were fighting, not just playing but fighting, to win a game and I think it is fair to say they have had a few players in their time and they have still got a few now."
