Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp felt he needed to take off Sadio Mane at half time against Atletico Madrid.

The Senegalese winger was in fine form against the La Liga champions, scoring his eighth goal of the season to help the Reds into the last 16 of the competition.

However, Klopp hooked Mane at half time, as he felt that Atletico were being incredibly rash in some of their challenges.

"I really hated the moment when I had to take off Sadio," Klopp explained to BT Sport. "Because Sadio played an incredible game.

"But my worry was about every type of challenge, in the air where you never know what happens if there's an arm or stuff like this, and one of them goes down and rolls over three times.

"Then Sadio's [sent] off and that would have been the wrong thing [to do]. I didn't like it but in the end I had to do it."

He added: "We have no chance at that level, I don't think it's good or bad.

"Everybody is different and you have to use your own skillset, we have to play our football and that's what we did."