Burnley manager Sean Dyche has sought to clarify his comments from earlier this week about Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge, stressing he did not label the striker a 'cheat'.
Following the Clarets' 3-1 loss to Liverpool on Wednesday, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp, despite apparently having not regarded them as fouls, expressed his unhappiness about some of the challenges there had been on his players, including one by Ben Mee on Joe Gomez, who suffered a leg fracture.
Dyche on Thursday came out fighting in response to Klopp, commending his players for their tackling and saying only one challenge by Phil Bardsley was 'questionable', while describing Mee's as 'fantastic.