Our friends across the pond tend to get a lot of grief when it comes to football, or 'soccer', and this recent question by a Canadian journalist to Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hasn't helped their cause.
Despite the Major League Soccer coming on leaps and bounds since its inception. It has attracted world-class, albeit older footballers such Zlatan Ibrahimović, Andrea Pirlo, David Villa and Frank Lampard, old perceptions remain.
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This one journalist hasn't helped, though. He quizzed manager Klopp on 43-goals-this-season man, Mohamed Salah.
He said that despite the abundance of goals the Egyptian King has scored this season, he looks like he still doesn't pull his weight in a match, because he seems to 'only scores goals.'
"Watching Salah play - he obviously scores bucket full of goals. But sometimes he seems to not do all that much except for score... Do you care if a player scores that many goals?"
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Klopp doesn't look too impressed with the Canadian reporter's critique of his star player. The German had his hand pressed against his cheek as he listens to the strange assessment.
But, being the guy, he is, Klopp responds in full.
"Each player has to do different jobs and each striker needs to defend," Klopp said.
"Mo is doing that, but do Firmino and Mane defend more in specific situations? Yes, they do.
"But if you look Firmino tells Salah to move up front. It's not that he's out of any duties defensively, even if you defend with all players it doesn't mean they're all just outside the box.
"He's not free of duties, he's involved in defending, but we have defenders who are more involved than that."
Fair play, Klopp.
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