Hornets score a dramatic late equaliser to shatter Klopp’s Kop revolution
JURGEN KLOPP must have had his fill of South Americans over the past 48 hours.
First, Liverpool’s Brazilian Philippe Coutinho stunned his manager and club by telling them he wanted to leave for Barcelona, less than 24 hours before their first game of the season.
And then, during stoppage time of that fixture, Watford’s Uruguayan defender Miguel Britos popped up to earn his side a point, just as it looked as if Liverpool were going to claim all three.
Klopp argued that Britos’ goal should not have stood, that it was offside.
But Liverpool fans will have travelled home to Merseyside, lamenting that they had yet again conceded scruffy, preventable goals from set-pieces and close range. Their side had twice found themselves behind in the first half, with Stefano Okaka and Abdoulaye Doucoure scoring either side of Sadio Mane’s excellent strike.
But when Roberto Firmino drew Liverpool level early in the second half and new boy Mo Salah put them ahead, they looked on course to end a difficult few days with a win.
As the clock ticked into time added on, they looked to have done enough, but Watford kept