Jurgen Klopp slammed by Jamie O'Hara following excuse for Liverpool failure

Jamie O'Hara has hammered Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp for suggesting the pitch at Craven Cottage was "too dry" on Saturday afternoon.

The Reds needed two equalisers from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah to salvage a 2-2 draw against newly-promoted Fulham. A brace from Aleksandar Mitrovic almost gave Marco Silva's side an unlikely victory against the FA Cup and EFL Cup champions.

Speaking after the match, Klopp expressed his frustration with the playing surface. Fulham were quick to dismiss the German's claims on Twitter by uploading a picture of the pitch being watered just moments before the Premier League fixture got underway.

In the picture, eight sprinklers can be seen spraying water across the grass. "The Craven Cottage turf looking absolutely lush yesterday," read the tweet.

Parts of Britain - including London - are suffering from a lack of rainfall. Sunny weather has dominated the skies over the capital since June and a drought could be declared shortly. Temperatures in London are expected to reach 34 degrees Celsius this weekend.

Klopp was keen to make his feelings known about London's dryness after the game, but former Tottenham midfielder O'Hara is having none of it. The pundit knows Craven Cottage well after spending the 2015/16 campaign at Fulham, playing 37 games.

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"He's making excuses," O'Hara told talkSPORT. "He loves an excuse, Jurgen, and fair play to him because he gets away with it quite a lot. I've played for Fulham at Craven Cottage and that pitch is immaculate, it's one of the best pitches you're ever going to play on.

"The grass is perfect, they always have it bang on. They water the pitch constantly before the game! They even water the pitch at half-time! It's hot, so it's going to dry out quickly, but come on... Fulham backed themselves, went out and played really well.

"They went after it. I don't think Liverpool were expecting it, they were lethargic - they looked like they still had a hangover from last season and weren't at the races. Fulham capitalised on that. To come out and make excuses about the pitch is just nonsense."

Speaking to BT Sport after Saturday's game, Klopp said: "We got a point from a really bad game from my side so now it's a question of 'How can that happen?' The attitude was not right in the beginning and then we wanted to fight back but it wasn't easy any more.

"The pitch was dry, stuff like this, we played really in their cards most of the time. The result is fine, I don't think we deserved more than that but the performance was massively improvable."

Liverpool, who started the season by lifting the Community Shield, are already two points behind main rivals Manchester City in the title race. Their next three Premier League games are against Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Bournemouth.