With a 5-1 advantage from the first leg, Jurgen Klopp is expected to make some considerable changes when Liverpool host Sparta Prague in the Europa League on Thursday.
The damage for the Czech has been done and it would surely be a miracle for the visitors if they are to even come close to overturning that first-leg deficit at the Letna Stadion. Stranger things have happened, perhaps. Just not that often.
With Manchester United to come in the FA Cup quarter-finals later that week, Klopp will be determined to ensure as many of his big guns are rested for that one at Anfield on Thursday night, particularly given the list of absentees at present.
Klopp can ill-afford to be without any more of his walking wounded so risking too many of them in what is an effective dead-rubber is a risky balancing act he must get right.
In many ways, that is the major challenge confronting the manager with a place in the quarter-finals of the Europa League virtually assured.