Jurgen Klopp has claimed the officials for Liverpool’s win at Burnley have ‘never played football’ amid the ‘insane’ decision to disallow Harvey Elliott’s goal.

The Reds returned to the top of the Premier League table on Boxing Day as they eased to a 2-0 win at Turf Moor thanks to strikes from Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota.

Klopp has blasted the ‘insane’ decision to disallow Harvey Elliott’s goal

Beyer pushed Salah in the back just as Ryan Gravenberch sent in a low cross

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Salah was then in an offside position as Elliott tucked home from close range

But it could have been a bigger scoreline had the Merseyside outfit not had two goals overturned.

Cody Gakpo’s goal in the first half was disallowed by referee Paul Tierney because Darwin Nunez had fouled Charlie Taylor. After reviewing the goal, VAR declined to reverse the ruling and asked Tierney to see it on his pitchside monitor.

Harvey Elliott then saw a goal disallowed early in the second half after Mohamed Salah was found to have been standing offside and obstructing James Trafford’s vision.

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But despite VAR official Nick Hopton spotting the offside, he didn’t see the push on Salah by Jordan Beyer which saw him shunted beyond the Clarets backline.

Speaking to Amazon Prime after the game, Klopp was asked about Elliott’s disallowed goal, while also being shown Salah being nudged in the back.

It left the German failing to hold back in his view of the officials, as he blasted the ‘insane’ decision.

He said: “Only somebody who has never played football can make this an offside.

“But again, they will tell us in the end, ‘It’s an offside situation’, or whatever.

“It’s insane when you see that. This man, if he never played football, then it can happen where he might think, ‘Oh, offside rule, let me see, page seven, there’s somebody between him and the goalie…’

“That’s a ridiculous decision.”

He added: “Why do referees create their own view on something?

“We all watch football and need the referees, but we need them to make the right interpretations of the rules.

“How can you make in this situation no goal, it’s like, wow. If that would have been on us, I would say, ‘that’s a clear goal’.

“Handball is sometimes handball and all these kinds of things.”

Fortunately for Klopp and his team, the judgments made against them had little effect on the outcome, as the Reds are now two points ahead of Arsenal.