Jurgen Klopp has hit back at Pep Guardiola for accusing Mane as a diver.

The Manchester City boss speaking after his team’s last minute winner against Southampton on Saturday reacted by employing mind games revealing the Liverpool winger as a “talent to score incredible goals in the last minute."

"It has happened many times, what Liverpool have done, in the last few years, it's because (Mane) is a special talent," Guardiola told BBC Sport.

"Sometimes he's diving, sometimes he has this talent to score incredible goals in the last minute. He's a talent."

Sadio Mane was booked at Aston Villa on Saturday for simulation, which he finally scored a stoppage time winner to help Liverpool maintain their six-point gap on top of the League.

Asked whether Mane is a diver at the pre-match discussion of the UEFA Champions League game against Genk, Klopp dismissed the talk and said, "I'm not really in a Man City mood at the moment.

"Do I like that he says this about one of my players? I'm not even 100 per cent sure if he spoke about Sadio [Mane] or us in general. I didn't hear Sadio's name.

"I don't know how he could have known about any incident in the game so quickly after [their game against Southampton].

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Liverpool will welcome Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday and according to the German, if Sadio was booked on Saturday against Villa, it was because there was contact.

"Sadio is not a diver. There was a situation in the Aston Villa game where he got a contact and went down. Maybe it wasn't a penalty but there was contact - it's not like jumping over a leg and acting like he hit you."

The Best Manager defended the Senegalese after been criticized for going down too easily against Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspurs.

"All the other penalties were penalties because he was in that situation and stayed there," added Klopp.

The Red will welcome Genk at Anfield tomorrow for the reverse fixture of their Champions League game. Liverpool won the first leg by 4-1 and are second in Group E.