Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Naby Keita will miss his side's trip to Huddersfield on Saturday evening but remains hopeful of having a near full-strength squad at his disposal. 

It was a rather brutal international break for the Reds, with Keita injuring his hamstring, Mohamed Salah sustaining a muscular problem and Sadio Mane breaking his thumb.

Those setbacks came after an in-form James Milner was forced off against Manchester City. 

But while Salah and Milner who have been able to train as normal, and Mane could both feature at the John Smith's Stadium, Keita will not travel. 

"We had a session yesterday and a few of the boys trained, so we'll have to see how they've reacted after that," Klopp told the press.

"The only thing that is pretty sure is that Naby [Keita] will not be available; with all the rest we have to see how it develops. That's it, pretty much."

Netherlands captain Virgil van Dijk returned to Melwood early due to concerns about aggravating a rib problem, but Klopp insists that the centre-back is no longer in discomfort.

"You saw when he went off – everybody saw when he went off – in the home game against Southampton, Virgil would not leave the pitch without any major problems," he said.

"It settled pretty quickly. Football players have to play very often with some kind of pain, that’s how it is. What it is exactly is not too important.

"It's all good, he has no problems with that anymore."

League position belies Huddersfield's quality

Liverpool, joint-leaders with Chelsea and Manchester City, are overwhelming favourites against David Wagner's struggling Terriers.

The hosts have managed to amass only three points across their first eight games and are already one of the favourites to be relegated.

But Klopp believes they have been unlucky thus far and has emphatically warned against any complacency. 

"It's a typical football thing – I heard a few people talking about Huddersfield: ‘Not good enough here, not good enough there, they have to score more.' They had more possession against Tottenham than Tottenham. Not a lot of teams can say that about themselves. At Burnley they had more possession," he pointed out.

"They play proper football, they are difficult to catch. They play different systems. So far it was unlucky.

"This game is a trap, a 100 per cent trap.

“We are third with 20 points, they are pretty much bottom of the table. That’s why analysis is so important; if you only used the table to analyse a team, you would say ‘They don’t score a lot, they conceded a few and they are third from the bottom so obviously not a good football team.’ Then we’d have a big problem.

Whether it's against a top team or a side they should beat, Klopp insists his players are always prepared.

"We have a lot of people working on analysis, not only against PSG or whatever. That’s good, so we have all the information we need.”