Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel is finding positives from a lack of time with his squad on the training pitch.
Tuchel feels the high number of matches presents an opportunity to see what they can do on the pitch, even if he is having to be careful of how much work he does with them at Cobham.
"Every coach in the world wants to have four weeks with his new team to get to known the habits and the characters and the characteristics of the players but we did not," he said.
"Maybe the good thing is that we didn't think about it because there was no time. It was beneficial that we had a lot of games because in matches you get to know your team better. In matches the boys can show their spirit of competition, their mentality and you see pretty much everything.
"Now we're learning and trusting each other while we are playing in the hardest competition in Europe and this is a good experience but there is no other way at the moment. There's a lot of space to improve, now we have three days to prepare the next match and we will use them.
"It's always a balance and this is what we think about when we're in Cobham. How much training time do we get with the players? How much information do we give them? In the end less is more. There's the constant management for us to deal with the sessions, with the input, with the support, or just sometimes leave them alone and let them process all the new movements, the new approach or their performances. It will also be like this during the next month, that we always think about how much can we give the team and what would be an overload."
