Then why do so many managers use late substitutions to bring off midfielders/defenders to bring on attacking players when they need all three points?
Just last weekend Bosz reacted to going down 1-3 and losing Sokratis by using his final sub to take off Philipp for Bartra.
Against Tottenham it was Kagawa for Götze, Dahoud for Castro and Zagadou for Toprak.
When Guardiola was chasing a goal vs Everton his first sub of the match was to take off Jesus for Sterling.
When he needed a goal vs Bournemouth he brought on Sane for Jesus.
Are they cowards as well, trying to defend losing positions even?
Sometimes coaches feel like a change of shape will benefit their team, sometimes they don't and sometimes they have to sub off players who played an important midweek fixture halfway across the world.
Klopp is turning into a sour and sarcastic idiot, when things don't go his way. Few managers talk so much nonsense. Occasionally it's fun, but doing it all the time makes him look like a moron.
Additionally his work for Liverpool is hardly great. In fact it's quite underwhelming. Overall his team isn't better than the sum of its parts. Laugh all you like about Mou parking the bus, but this Liverpool side is remarkable limited. It's pace of mane and salah coupled with individual brilliance. They press well, but that's the only area where they improved under klopp. They are not well drilled in defence or attack. Even his Dortmund team was tactically more astute.
The easiest way for the opposition to adapt to his style is to sit back. Why should the opposition play into his hand?
I never liked klopp but respected his work. Currently there are many managers in the EPL who make more out of what they have.
I don't think anyone disputes that Klopp can be a sore loser during or immediately after matches, but a lot of what's going on in this thread goes way past that.
Way too often it's like some drama loving journo takes a sound bite completely out of context then someone posts it in this thread, sometimes even misquoting and then people do their best to read what they want to read into that distorted version of a statement.
Like for example if Klopp (or Guardiola/Wenger for that matter) said something like "we didn't play well, lacked precision and the condition of the pitch didn't help either". Some journo then makes the headline "Klopp unhappy with pitch" and this thread is like "omg he blamed the pitch again, can't take responsibility, always someone else's fault".