Arne Slot admits the turnaround time from the midweek win over Galatasaray has left Liverpool unable to train properly ahead of Saturday's Premier League match at Brighton & Hove Albion (12.30pm kick-off).
The Reds secured their place in the last eight of the Champions League on Wednesday evening with a 4-0 win over the Turkish side, setting up a quarter-final tie with holders Paris Saint-Germain next month in the process.
The Premier League champions now return to domestic action with a 430-mile round trip for the visit to the Amex Stadium.
As a result Slot confirmed that Friday's session at the AXA Training Centre was set to be a light one, conceding the nature of the calendar makes it tough to prepare as thoroughly as he would like.
"Training wise, [we do] close to nothing," Slot said when asked what the agenda looks like post-Galatasaray. "Yesterday (Thursday) the players did recovery. The most important thing is recovery, we cannot train in a way that we can learn something to help us to win the game on Saturday.
"We have to focus completely on recovery. The two things most important to that are sleep and food. We try to make sure they get enough sleep, we get into bed late on Wednesday evening.
"Every athlete will tell you after a game like this it’s not easy to fall asleep straight away. That’s why we train later on Thursday morning, we report later today.
"Hopefully they have two days with eight to nine hours of sleep. Then we go into a hotel tonight to make sure we don’t have to go that early tomorrow, so they have proper sleep.
"We try to do that in the best possible way. Yesterday we had a meeting about why we played well, what we have to do and also telling them how important recovery is. Today we will probably be 15-20 minutes on the pitch.
"And then of course meetings have to do the job. The good thing is we’ve had eight or nine months together, it is not like I have to teach them something today and if I do not we cannot play a game of football.
"We know our style, we know what to expect. This is almost the whole season, it is hardly any training now it is all about recovery, recovery, recovery."
The Liverpool head coach added: "Those 15-20 minutes [of training] are also not 11v11, not that we are on a full pitch all running. In two days they have touched the ball for 15-20 minutes.
"The ones that didn’t play have a proper session yesterday. Five players - Rio Ngumoha and Trey Nyoni were two of the five - and we take care not to overload them. Only Curtis Jones, Federico Chiesa and Cody Gakpo and the two goalkeepers."
The clash with Brighton is the Reds' final one before the international break.
