After Jurgen Klopp questioned the way Atletico Madrid played football following Liverpool's UEFA Champions League exit, one of Diego Simeone's stars has now commented on the criticisms.
The Reds boss was not happy after their last 16 exit and claimed Los Rojiblancos did not play proper football over the two legs.
Various pundits in England echoed Klopp's sentiments at the time, but Keiran Tripper - formerly of Tottenham Hotspur - did not care too much about the criticism.
"If you go there and go toe-to-toe with Liverpool, you're going to get beat 6-0. I don't know what people expect," Trippier told the Mirror.
"You see pundits complaining because we did defend, but did they expect us to go there and play attacking football, especially with Liverpool playing the way that they're playing at the moment? You need to go there with a plan and we did that.
"We did have to defend, but the most important thing is that we got the win.
"We knew they would blow up because of the amount of pressure they'd applied and the amount of energy they'd put into the game.
"We knew they'd slow down. It took us over 100 minutes, but we won 3-2.
"People can complain as much as they want, but we thought it was necessary for that type of game.
"As I've got older it has stopped bothering me. Liverpool didn't put their chances away and we beat them in both legs. It worked and that's what football is about."
