Pellegrini hits out at Liverpool boss: 'Klopp is used to winning with offside goals'

West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini has said his Liverpool counterpart is used to winning games with offside goals.

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Pellegrini previously squared off with Jurgen Klopp in the 2013 Champions League quarter-final, when the managers were in charge of Malaga and Dortmund respectively.

In the second leg, Klopp's Dortmund scored a last-minute winner to qualify in which four of his players were offside.

With that result clearly still fresh in Pellegrini's memory, the ex-Man City boss said after Monday night's game: "Klopp is used to winning with offside goals."

"He beat me against Malaga with a goal seven metres offside - so he cannot complain about anything."

Pellegrini was left disappointed that his side could not get three points out of the game after a number of good chances and was frustrated at being denied victory by a refereeing error.

"Yes, disappointed, without any doubt," he said.

"If you create four chances and didn’t score and they score a goal one metre-and-a-half offside, you must be disappointed and worried.

"I think we played in the way I like this team to play against every team.

Maybe in the moment that we were (on a losing run), nobody believed that we could do it but I was absolutely sure and I trusted the players that we can play in the way we did.

I think we did a complete performance, because against the team that has the best defence we created so many chances.

- additional reporting by Press Association