Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp denied on Friday that his Premier League leaders will have the upper hand over Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur in the title race despite a lighter schedule after crashing out of both domestic cup competitions.
City trail Klopp's men by four points, with Tottenham two points further back, but both of Liverpool's rivals are still involved in four competitions.
Klopp meanwhile made nine changes for Monday's 2-1 defeat at Wolves in the FA Cup, with his focus on ending the Reds' 29-year wait to win the title, and his team were knocked out of the League Cup by Chelsea back in September.
"There's no advantage. If you have all your players available, it's brilliant that you can always play them, it's really good," said Klopp ahead of Saturday's trip to Brighton.
"We have to use the time. You can do a lot of wrong things when you have a week to train, that's possible.
"We have to use the time and really be, week in and week out, in the best shape we can be."
"Here it happened, it was a bit of bad luck. That makes it quite a bit tricky."
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"Bringing them again in that moment, as you saw with Dejan, who played pretty much all these games as well, is a risk -- it's a proper risk."