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Adam Lallana will miss Liverpool’s FA Cup fourth round tie with Wolves - but Jurgen Klopp insists he won’t rest all his big guns for Saturday’s Anfield showdown.

The England international suffered a deep cut to his leg after a collision with Southampton captain Steven Davis during the midweek EFL Cup defeat. It required stapling pitchside and he subsequently had stitches.

Despite Tuesday’s crunch Premier League clash with Chelsea on the horizon, Klopp says there will be no repeat of the 10 changes he made for the visit of Plymouth in the last round. However, Gini Wijnaldum, Joe Gomez, Alberto Moreno, Lucas Leiva and Divock Origi are in line to start.

The Reds boss is hoping to recall Nathaniel Clyne, who missed the setback against Saints with an ongoing abdominal muscle problem. But Marko Grujic remains out after damaging his ankle in training.

“We had a few knocks after the game but we will still have a very good team,” Klopp said.

“Adam Lallana got a cut so I’m not sure that we should try whether the stitches are good enough. We will see how Clyney (Nathanial Clyne) is.

“It would be great for us if he could play after we rested him in the last game.

“We won’t make 10 changes or something but we will have to make a few changes. It will be slightly more experienced (than the team against Plymouth).”

Klopp admits back-to-back defeats to Swansea and Southampton have dented spirits in the squad but says recent results haven’t changed his belief in their ability.

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He said: “How could the confidence be exactly the same after these results than after winning 10 games? That would be really strange so of course it’s changed, of course it has influence.

“Everything we do we do it in public and if we suffer a little bit, it looks like we suffer a lot, but it is not like this.

“It’s a little bit like building a house, you start building and are full of enthusiasm and think ‘Great, in half a year or one year I will live in this house in a wonderful surrounding!’ You start in the summer, the weather is good and everything works better. Then November is coming and you’re still not finished and now it’s difficult.

“In this moment, if you stop building then it makes not too much sense. You have to wait maybe sometimes for the rain to stop and all that stuff, but in the end you will live in a house when you stay on it.

“That’s how I understand it. Maybe the weather has changed a little bit, but we are still building and we take all of these things that happened – it is not that serious, it is not that big a problem, but sometimes a few little problems are enough.”

I know the funny German talks about the wind

If defensive frailties cost Liverpool dear against Swansea, the problems were at the other end against Saints as they were desperately lacking a spark in the final third.

“Swansea was disappointing because we shouldn’t concede goals like this. I don’t expect perfection but I expect concentration,” he said.

“Against Southampton it was about reacting in specific situations and keeping your nerve.

“I know the funny German talks about the wind but the wind was an issue in this game for a football playing side. It the first time in my life that I saw a flat ball stopping on a football pitch because of the wind. It happened.

“We didn’t get frustrated, we did well and we created chances. With a little bit of luck we would have scored. I don’t know what we can do to change the decisions around fouls and handballs, when there’s a handball it would be nice to hear a whistle.

“We played Wednesday, Thursday was recovery, Friday second day recovery and Saturday we play so not much training time. It’s about getting the focus back on different things,

“The difference is in the detail. We have to stay positive. I see the progress. I am really fine. I don’t like the results but we’re still fighting.”

Wolves sit 18th in the Championship but they knocked out Stoke in the last round and have kicked on since Paul Lambert took over in November.

The two bosses both enjoy legendary status at Borussia Dortmund with Lambert part of their Champions League winning side of 1997.

Klopp said: “He’s a very nice man and absolutely a Dortmund legend.

“He was always welcome at Dortmund, he watched training when he had no job and we spoke a little bit.

“I’m pretty sure we did our coaching licence together in Germany. I always followed him when he was at Aston Villa and I’ve watched Wolverhampton’s last three games.

“I’m really happy that we can meet again but I would like to send him home empty handed.

“Wolves are a pretty direct team. Long ball play, target players up front and then counter-pressing. There won’t be a lot of spaces but we are used to that. I think that we will be dominant and then we have to find the spaces between their players.

“If we win the next two games then no-one will even remember that we lost the semi-final of the EFL Cup. That’s how the world is.”