Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders reiterated manager Jurgen Klopp's call for player welfare to be taken into consideration after the Premier League rejected the idea of cancelling a round of Christmas games.
Senior representatives of all 20 clubs met on Monday to discuss the idea amid the Omnicron-driven Covid surge which is resulting in the postponement of matches.
And Lijnders, who was fielding questions instead of Klopp ahead of the Reds' Carabao Cup quarter-final at home to Leicester on Wednesday, insisted a Premier League player needs 72 hours to recover, making the quick turnaround of games on Boxing Day against Leeds and December 28 versus Leicester 'absurd'.