DAVID MOYES has hit back at Jurgen Klopp by insisting: “It’s not my job to entertain Anfield.”
The Sunderland boss saw his side frustrate Liverpool on Saturday before eventually going down 2-0 to the Reds.
Kop chief Klopp was less than impressed with the negative style of the visitors, claiming the Premier League’s bottom side were “the most defensive team I ever saw.”
Moyes was initially generous in his praise for the high-flyers, describing them as “the best attacking team around”, but later hit back at the German’s remarks.
He said: “Maybe if I was a foreign coach I would’ve been praised for that.
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"We don’t have the same quality as Liverpool. I knew we had to come here and defend. They won 6-1 here the other week so we didn’t want to come here and get rolled over that easy.
"I was at the Euros all summer and saw a tournament like that. A tournament of big teams having to play against teams who shut up shop and made it difficult to get through. It’s a big part of modern football now as well - it can’t always be one-way.
"I hope soon I can come with a team that can give Liverpool an open game. At the moment I don’t have the team to do that."
Jason Denayer was asked to perform a man-marking job on Brazilian Philippe Coutinho, while striker Victor Anichebe spent most of the clash at left-back.
Moyes added: "We put him on Coutinho and man-marked him to try and nullify. My job was not to come here and entertain the Anfield crowd, my job was to come here and get a result for Sunderland.
"We had to try and do that. We didn’t do that but tried hard to."
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