Mo Salah says there ‘is going to be a fire’ if he speaks about his row with Jurgen Klopp at West Ham

Klopp left Mohamed Salah out of his starting line-up at the London Stadium and the pair exchanged what appeared to be angry words on the touchline when the Egyptian was sent on after 79 minutes.

It was an ugly end to another poor display from Liverpool, who could have at least temporarily moved level with leaders Arsenal with a victory.

They had come from a goal down – a Jarrod Bowen header – to lead 2-1 thanks to Andy Robertson’s snap-shot and a comical West Ham own goal.

But Antonio’s header meant two more dropped points and Klopp’s final season in charge is still fizzling out.

Klopp refused to be drawn on the incident after the match, and when asked if he would explain what Salah said to him, he replied. “No, but we spoke about it already in the dressing room. That's done.”

Salah was asked to offer comment on the incident by reporters after the match and he said: “There is going to be a fire today if I speak.”

While Salah was clearly annoyed to be dropped from the Liverpool team, he has been in poor form in recent weeks and Klopp was justified to leave him on the bench, but he refused to criticise his forwards on a day when they spurned more chances in front of goal.

"It is what it is,” said Klopp as he was asked about the form of his strikers.

"You see the games. We are together and we go through that together, that is all. The boys want it, they fought hard, gave absolutely everything. For some of them, it was definitely too hard today, and yes, that's it.

"Very disappointed, obviously. I think everyone can see that only one team wins the game, and that is us with the chances we created, with the possession we had, with all the things we did. It was a tough one at the end of four games in 10 days, but I think the players did really well.

"We just conceded out of nothing and need a few more chances and kind of scrappy goals in the end to score twice. When we were 2-1 up, we could control it, and still, as I said in a lot of moments, playing really well, but the final situation we didn't take. That has been the story of the last four weeks.

"What I don't understand is that with each chance we miss, everyone is there throwing [their] arms, but a chance is the closest you can get to a goal, so we have to be more positive there. Accept these kind of things happen and then do it again, and again and again.

"We played well but didn't finish the situations off and now we have to acknowledge and carry on."

When asked to comment on his side’s aborted attempt to win the title, he added: “I'm not in the mood to talk about that, to be honest, or look at that at all. We had to win here, we knew that, and we didn't and now we have a little bit more time between now and the next game. We try to get the boys ready again and we will go again."