Jurgen Klopp has downplayed Sadio Mane’s reaction to him after Liverpool’s win over Manchester United.
Last season’s Premier League champions ran out 4-2 winners at Old Trafford on Thursday evening which kept their bid to secure a top four finish alive.
Goals from Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota and a Roberto Firmino brace secured the Reds’ first domestic win at the home of their arch rivals since March 2014.
But its immediate aftermath was dominated by Mane appearing to snub Klopp at the final whistle when he approached him for a congratulatory fist-bump.
The Senegal international found himself demoted to the substitutes’ bench for the side that faced United before becoming a late introduction into the game.
However Klopp insists that the decision to omit Mane from his starting line-up was purely tactical in order to include Jota in Liverpool’s three-pronged attack.
He said: “If somebody shows me five millions times respect and one time not, what is then more important?
“The world is then in a situation where you then make this one time bigger than necessary, that’s unfortunately the case.
“Even when I speak now about that, already I can see the headlines which you are making of it. But that’s not the case.
“I am completely relaxed about that. If you would have seen me as a player, all what I did out of emotion, it was insane, and I’m a completely normal guy.
“Nothing else. We will talk about it and then it will be sorted. That’s all.”
Liverpool now sit four points behind Chelsea in the race for Champions League qualification with a game in-hand on them as well as Leicester City.
Both teams face off in this weekend’s FA Cup final and again in next Tuesday’s Premier League encounter while the Anfield club travel to Burnley.