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Glenn Price, Liverpool correspondent 6y

Adam Lallana to miss Liverpool's trip to Huddersfield - Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp has ruled Adam Lallana out of Liverpool's trip to Huddersfield Town on Tuesday night after suffering a small tear in a leg muscle.

Lallana sat out Saturday's 3-2 defeat to West Bromwich Albion because of the issue and could go on to miss Liverpool's next two matches.

It is another setback for the 28-year-old, who has only made two starts this season due to a thigh problem that kept him out of the first three months of 2017-18.

Speaking about the midfielder's fitness, Klopp told the Liverpool Echo: "He's not ready for Huddersfield. [The] medical department told me no chance for West Brom, no chance for Huddersfield and a chance for Tottenham [on Feb. 4].

"After Tottenham for sure, but before Tottenham I don't know exactly."

Meanwhile, Klopp insists his side must show a positive reaction from a week that saw Liverpool beaten by the Premier League's 20th and 19th-placed teams.

Liverpool's 18-match unbeaten run was ended at Swansea City before they were knocked out of the FA Cup -- their most realistic chance of silverware this season -- by West Brom.

"We have to show in the next game what we really want," Klopp added. "It's not the first game we've lost and it's all about reactions. We have to do better.

"We've played two games in a row in which we didn't perform like we can. It's not that anybody thinks or expects too much from us.

"Look at both games and you have to say that was not good enough, simple as that. What we achieve, we will see in the next few games.

"There are a lot of games to play, a lot of big challenges waiting for us and we have to be ready.

"After each defeat, if you learn from it then it makes a little bit of sense. If you don't learn from it, then it makes absolutely no sense.

"I'm pretty sure we will learn but we have to show immediately because we play on Tuesday, not in four weeks.

"Of course the pressure increases in a situation like this, the pressure we make on ourselves, but that's how it is as well. We will see the reaction, go to Huddersfield, watch the game."

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