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Jurgen Klopp has insisted his Liverpool players are not divers after Mohamed Salah was caught up in another penalty storm.

Arsenal defender Sokratis angrily confronted Salah in a half-time tunnel bust-up at Anfield on Saturday night and accused the Reds' superstar forward of diving.

It is the second time in a week that the Egyptian was involved in a spot-kick related flashpoint after Newcastle also accused him of diving to win a penalty in their 4-0 away loss to the Reds on Boxing Day.

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Incredibly, Liverpool had not been awarded a penalty at Anfield for 424 days before the Newcastle game.

They have had three in two games there since, but Klopp sprang to the defence of his players.

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He insisted they have been denied more spot-kicks than been given and that the threshold should not be whether a challenge draws “blood” before a penalty is given.

Klopp said: “I haven’t seen it back [with Sokratis] and I have no clue about what happened around it, but the ref really was close to it.

“We don’t have divers and that was not a dive. The other one is not a dive. The ref decides it. In the three and a half years, we have had more penalties not given when they were penalties and you think, ‘Hmph, hmph, hmph!’

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“One of the few things I read in the English press is the Refwatch on Sky after the game. Not a lot of times have I thought, ‘That was a penalty,’ and then looked at it to find it was not the right decision. ‘Ah, good decision.’

“[Sky's former ref] Dermot Gallagher said [after Newcastle], ‘Penalty.’ His [Dummett's] arm was there. Do we need blood for a proper penalty? I think no.

“In that moment, if you don’t touch Mo and he makes the next step and shoots – and we know he’s pretty good at that… these are the situations."