Curtis Jones was sent off in Liverpool’s 2-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, according to Jurgen Klopp.

After being ordered to review the VAR monitor, referee Simon Hooper upgraded his decision to book the 22-year-old midfielder in the first half for a tackle on Yves Bissouma.

Diogo Jota was eventually issued his marching orders after picking up two bookings in short succession in the second half, giving Liverpool four red cards in just seven Premier League games this season. Alexis MacAllister was sent off at AFC Bournemouth, but the decision was overturned on appeal, while Virgil van Dijk was sent off away against Newcastle United.

Prior to this season’s four red cards, Klopp had only dismissed nine players since taking over as manager in October 2015, with the most recent four dating back to January 2019. Liverpool has frequently led the fair play table each season, with the German insisting that his club is not a dirty team despite recent controversial disciplinary situations.

“Red card for Curtis, probably everybody in the room here thinks it’s a clear red card,” he told reporters after the game. “I think differently because I used to play football and most of you don’t.”

“He had full power on the ball, rolled over it, and then hit the crucial part of the leg.” When viewed in slow motion, it appears horrifying, but when viewed in real time, it is not even close to being that scary. It wasn’t done on purpose in the least.

“It doesn’t matter what I think about it because my thoughts won’t change anything.” The game is being played in real time, but we are judging it in slow motion.

“It doesn’t make much sense in the first place.” We wouldn’t all agree on the bulk of circumstances if they didn’t employ slow motion. It’s just a different point of view. Whatever (the officials do), I presume they attempt to do it correctly.”

“It’s important to me that people don’t start thinking we have so many red cards that we’re a kicking team,” he added. We don’t (kick players off).

“Alex’s first red card wasn’t a red card. The second is for a typical foul, in my opinion. The third is for that case (regarding Curtis), and the fourth I’m not sure how many games there are when you see 11 vs 9. It’s not something that happens very often, and we weren’t kicking Tottenham players. We attempted to play football.

“The first yellow is not a clear yellow, and the second is possibly a yellow.” Everything became more difficult as a result.”