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Jurgen Klopp has reaffirmed his faith in Simon Mignolet as Liverpool’s No 1 ahead of Saturday’s Anfield showdown with Huddersfield Town.

The Reds boss will resist calls to drop the Belgium international in the wake of last weekend’s 4-1 defeat to Tottenham.

Mignolet endured an afternoon to forget at Wembley but Loris Karius’ hopes of replacing him for the visit of the Terriers have been dashed.

“Simon will play,” Klopp said.

“I didn’t think a second about changing this position.”

Asked if that was because it would be unfair to punish Mignolet for one poor display, Klopp added: “Absolutely. Yes.”

Much of the criticism was aimed at Mignolet and Dejan Lovren after their individual errors led to goals against Spurs, but Klopp says he was more concerned with how Liverpool defended as a unit.

“Could Simon have done better for the fourth goal and pushed it wider? Yes,” Klopp said.

“Dejan, the first goal, that was 100% collective. The second goal was difficult to defend afterwards, but in the same situation again, 99 times out of 100 he will deal with it.

“Yes, difficult to defend (him). It was a personal mistake, these things happen. We don’t have to hide things like this, but we don’t have to make things bigger.

“A lot of things were really collective and yeah the second goal was individual, while Simon knows with the fourth goal, when he is there it would be nice if he could keep the ball a little more.

“But that was the first mistake I can remember from Simon in the last few weeks. In our world then people go for him. The criticism is harsh but that’s how it is.”

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With 16 goals conceded in nine matches, Liverpool have endured their worst start to a season defensively for 53 years.

The problems have come on their travels - leaking three at Watford, five at Man City and four at Tottenham. In stark contrast Klopp’s men have let in just one goal in six hours of league football at Anfield so far this term.

“Look at the statistics, we don’t concede a lot of shots on target still,” Klopp added.

“Three against Watford, first game of the season, these things can happen. Add the City game and the Tottenham game that’s already 12 conceded, which makes it not so nice.

“We don’t ignore it, we’ve made mistakes it’s true. The Man City mistakes have a completely different element from all the other mistakes as we were one man down and were not too smart.

“We have to work really hard on the detail. We did that this week. We’ve had time to train and hopefully everybody will see it tomorrow.”

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Klopp insists it’s not simply a case of eradicating basic errors. He was angry about the Reds’ lack of awareness at Wembley with Joel Matip not providing sufficient cover for his centre-back partner.

“There are little things where we have to help each other, where we need to have protection,” he said.

“One example – yes, there was an individual mistake from Dejan, but Joel should have been already much closer to the situation. Protection is for the moment when protection is needed.

“There are 500 times when you don’t have to be there, but you’re there for the one time when he misses the ball. We have these things where we have to do better.

“We were so good around throws in the last few games - lively, on our toes. But (for Spurs’ first goal) we had five opportunities to clear the situation, one ball in behind, no offside, alone in front of the keeper. That doesn’t make sense.

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“The only thing that could have avoided this situation was to work together to be aware and 100% spot on. Not the system, not the personal.

“It’s not about home or away. It’s about who we played. We had City where we were down to 10 men, and it was really bad at Tottenham. That's nine goals so that really feels sh***.

“Can I change it? I can’t change that any more but we can do better in the future. That’s what we spoke about.”