First team coach Mike Marsh insists Liverpool’s approach to training and recovery will not change despite approaching a busy schedule.

The club’s training methods were criticised by England manager Roy Hodgson in the continuing fall-out from teenage forward Raheem Sterling’s telling the national team boss he was tired ahead of their Euro 2016 qualifier in Estonia.

Hodgson disagrees with Rodgers’s claim speedy players such as Sterling and Daniel Sturridge – who has not played since getting injured in a training session on international duty last month – require lighter duties in the 48 hours after a match and intends to speak to the Reds boss about it.

Starting on Sunday, Liverpool face seven games in 21 days – including two fixtures against Real Madrid and one against Premier League leaders Chelsea – but Marsh said their approach would not alter.

“It’s a tough fixture list with the amount of games and the quality of the opposition so we know it’s going to be tough, but the more players we have available the better,” Marsh said.

“With England there has been a lot of discussion recently. We don’t really change.

“Our fitness programmes have been well documented.

“We try to recover the players as best we can to prepare for the games.

“We have a couple of days’ recovery after the game and we work with the group that don’t start (the previous match) and we build up to the next game and once one game finishes we try to recover as soon as possible.

“We try different ways. We do quite a lot of analysis with the players so we break them up into smaller groups and get players’ feedback in different ways.”

Sturridge is likely to be back for the weekend trip to QPR.

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