> “I got the same question just a second ago. I don’t know Gabriel Martinelli but he comes across as a nice guy. I think the problem for him is - and that’s the problem in general in football - is that there is so much time-wasting and players pretending they are injured in the final parts of the game or during the game that you can then sometimes be annoyed if you want to score a goal that you think that player is time-wasting.“
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> “I cannot ask from Gabriel Martinelli in the 94th minute when it’s so emotional for him to understand that he plays Liverpool and that is a team when they are being held, held, held against Leeds United we don’t even go to the floor, if we play West Ham United and \[Lucas\] Paqueta tries everything to get a second yellow card and my players try to drag him out. You cannot expect from Martinelli that he thinks so clear in the 94th minute. I am 100 per cent sure if he knew what the injury might be that he we would never do that.”
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> “But it doesn’t look great if he has the injury which we fear he might have, of course. But football, time-wasting, diving has come to the situation that players think in the 94th minute that probably that is happening again. Because I have seen it happening against us so many times this season that I can understand that Martinelli might have thought that this was time-wasting as well and he couldn’t have thought, ‘This is Liverpool, they don’t do this.‘”
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> “I don’t know yet but it didn’t look great if you have to go off on a stretcher. When we see the video, we both think probably the same but we have to wait on the scans if it’s that bad. Or maybe he can play on Monday - let’s hope so.“