Barry Robson believes his Aberdeen side are keen to return to action following their Viaplay Cup final defeat to Rangers on Sunday.
The Dons lost 1-0 at Hampden Park to a James Tavernier strike after 75 minutes of a hard-fought game.
However, the games continue to come thick and fast and struggling Livingston are the visitors to Pittodrie in the cinch Premiership on Wednesday night.
“Well, I think the players have bounced back relatively quickly,” said boss Robson, who revealed Jack MacKenzie was back in training after recovering from a hamstring injury, although fellow defender Slobodan Rubezic is suspended.
“The boys have been in today and they’ve been good. We went through bits of the final and in football you need to move on quickly.
“We’ve got a big game, just like all the rest of them. We are really looking forward to it.
“They are a good group who want to do well for the football club and they’ve always been really positive. We can’t wait to get going again.
“It’s good when a game comes around again really quickly. It’s a home game, we’ve got the fans behind us and it is a game we want to go and try and win.”
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Reflecting further on the Hampden defeat, Robson said: “When you look back after the emotion of the game and you look back at some of the things that we could have done better in the game.
“I also think there wasn’t much in the game. We were structurally quite good, we pressed them quite well.
“We lacked that wee bit at the end of the pitch on the day. As I said there wasn’t much between the two teams in the end and I’m just frustrated for the fans that travelled down because we really wanted to win it for them and we just fell short.
Livingston are bottom of the table, five points behind Motherwell having played two game fewer, but they ended a seven-game losing streak at the weekend with a goalless draw at home to Kilmarnock.
Robson said: “Livingston are the type of team that we’ve had to come up against this year.
“You’re coming up against some real top-end teams where you might have to sacrifice a bit of possession and then you’ve got to break other teams down in different games.
“Transition is always a big part of it. A lot of goals are scored by even your top teams on transition.
“Tactically the systems are a bit different. A lot of times we’ve been really brave by going two up top, sometimes we went to a box but we’ve dropped other players, our wing-backs really high.
“We just have to make sure that we get good players in good areas and try and create lots of chances because I think that is something that we do as a team, we create a lot of chances. “
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