Jose Mourinho criticised Jurgen Klopp's exuberant touchline behaviour after Tottenham Hotspur lost 2-1 to Liverpool at Anfield.
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The Reds returned to the top of the Premier League table at the expense of Spurs courtesy of Roberto Firmino's late headed goal from a corner.
Tottenham had looked like securing a point after Son Heung-Min had cancelled out Mohamed Salah's opener in the first half.
Mourinho and Klopp had words on the touchline at fulltime and the Portuguese later suggested he would not get away with his counterpart's actions.
"By the way, if I behaved the same way on the touchline like he does, I have no chance to stay there. I'm out one minute after," Mourinho told Amazon Prime.
"Come on, that's animated? That's animated?"
Asked if Klopp had overstepped the mark, Mourinho replied: "I'm saying that for some reason, I am different.
"That's the only thing I say, and that's sad."
On what was said after the final whistle, Mourinho replied: "I told him the best team lost. He disagreed, but that's his opinion."
Klopp was mystified when Mourinho's comments were put to him.
"Then my English is worse than I thought," the German said.
"I thought he said to me the better team lost and nothing about my behaviour on the touchline, so I have no idea what it is."
It was all going pretty much according to plan for Mourinho and his counter-attacking side until the 90th-minute winner from Firmino.
In fact, as the clock ticked toward stoppage time in the top-of-the-table match, Tottenham perhaps deserved more than to be drawing as the squandered the better second-half opportunities.
Mourinho will particularly rue Steven Bergwijn hitting the post and Harry Kane heading over from point-blank range at a corner.
"We were so close ... so close of winning, not so close of a draw," Mourinho said of what he described as "a very unfair result."
Still, it was a performance from Tottenham that suggested Mourinho's second-place team should be regarded as a genuine Premier League title contenders.
"They're a counter-attacking monster," Klopp, who beat his chest, first pumped and applauded the 2000 fans inside Anfield in trademark post-match style - said.
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