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David Moyes has responded to Jurgen Klopp's criticism of Sunderland's negative tactics against Liverpool.

Reds boss Klopp was withering in his assessment of the Black Cats after Saturday's 2-0 win at Anfield.

Indeed, the German remarked how Moyes' men were "the most defensive team I ever saw."

Moyes was generous in his praise for Liverpool afterwards, describing them as "the best attacking team around" at present.

But later he was willing to answer Klopp's accusations.

Told of his opposite number's comments, he said: "Maybe if I was a foreign coach I would’ve been praised for that.

"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.

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"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 given Liverpool an open game. At the moment I don’t have the team to do that."

Moyes had asked Jason Denayar to perform a man-to-man marking role on Liverpool dangerman Philippe Coutinho, while Klopp also pointed out that striker Victor Anichebe had spent much of the game at left back.

Moyes said: "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."