Vers of conquering their 20th English title of top flight, Liverpool's challenge is to remain motivated for the remaining two games of the season, said Arne Slot manager prior to Monday's collision in Brighton.
Liverpool sealed the Premier League title last month and has a huge lead of 15 points over the second Arsenal placed at the top of the table.
The players of Slot enjoyed some extra free time since he completed the competition and several were depicted with a break in Dubai this week.
Slot said that the team's mentality was positive, but motivating the players was a challenge with nothing that rode at their last two games.
“It is difficult for a team that has already won the competition to train for so many days in a row, we hardly had time in the season because of so many competitions – I want to make that clear,” Slot said reporters on Friday.
“The boys deserved a few days off, it has been a long season for us, to train three days is enough to be physically ready for the game. Mentally ready is something else.
“At the end of the season you have to find the right balance to be mentally fresh … I think the honest answer is yes (it's harder to motivate them).”
Liverpool won the title with a 5-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur last month and has since lost 3-1 in Chelsea and signed 2-2 at home with Arsenal, after having blown a lead of two goals.
There are already plans for the next season, but Slot said that the performances of players in the last two games would not affect his decisions about the composition of the team for the new campaign.
“The last two games are not to decide the players about the players, no, we know the qualities that our players have. It would not be fair to judge these two games. I have been working with the players for 10 or 11 months,” Slot said.
“I said so often before we are very happy with the players we have. If we feel that if we can strengthen the team, we will do that, but it is hard to strengthen when you have won the competition because it proves that we have so many good players.”
Slot remained tight lips on media reports associated with Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong as a potential replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold.
“It will be a boring answer. We don't talk about players we want to bring in public until they sign,” he said.
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