Klopp's Liverpool prepared for Benteke backlash


Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp celebrates with Mamadou Sakho at the end of the match. Crystal Palace v Liverpool - Barclays Premier League - Selhurst Park - 6/3/16. Action Images via Reuters / Tony O'Brien Livepic

LONDON (Reuters) - Juergen Klopp returns to the scene of one his Liverpool side's most controversial victories of last season this Saturday with the man who fashioned it lining up against him.

Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 2-1 at Selhurst Park last March with an injury-time penalty from Christian Benteke, which an angry Palace manager Alan Pardew believed was a dive.

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