Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has denied his team is 'falling apart' after Sunday's FA Cup defeat at Brighton.

The winning goal from Kaoru Mitoma came from a set-piece after Andy Robertson was booked for a foul on Alexis Mac Allister. Fabinho had moments earlier been fortunate to escape greater censure when cautioned for a poor tackle on Evan Ferguson, while there were earlier claims Ibrahima Konate should have dismissed after a strong challenge on Mac Allister.

And asked if his Liverpool team were falling apart given the manner of their late capitulation, Klopp said: “I don't think that happened. My job over the last couple of weeks has been pretty much to accept the questions I am asked and you can deep as dig as deep and left and right as you want.

“We will not fall apart, I can tell you. If it looks like that, then I'm sorry.

“The Fabinho challenge I've only seen once. It didn't look dynamic, but if it was then we could talk about a red card. It was not cool. Ibou, I didn't really see in the moment, and Robbo it was late in the game, it's nothing to do with falling apart, it's frustration, it's not right to do it.

“Against us teams get yellow cards constantly and nobody asks these questions, but for us we are not used to it as we don't usually concede yellow cards. But imagine if the boys didn't react at all.

“I don't like it, it's not the way to do it, but I'll have to look at it a few times to judge it better. But I'm pretty sure the assessment (we are falling apart) is not right."