Sunday lunchtime's away game at Aston Villa will be their first match since knocking Barcelona out of the Champions League to clinch a place in the quarter-finals.
The praise since then has been almost constant, but Benitez is well aware that with Bolton Wanderers just six points behind his club, in fifth place in the table, Liverpool must concentrate on the League ahead of their next European game against PSV Eindhoven in three weeks' time.
Benitez said: "We must concentrate on our League matches. We have had some time off since the Barcelona game, but it is the game at Aston Villa that must be at the top of our agenda now."
Benitez knows that claims from the Bolton manager, Sam Allardyce, that Champions League qualification is beyond his team, amount to little more than mind games.
Liverpool's current League form has also put a a top-three finish, to equal last season's final placing, in jeopardy. They have taken just four points out of the last 12 and are hampered by their mediocre record on the road, scoring just 15 goals in 14 away League matches, underlining that they have lost more away games than any other side in the top six.
A home game with Arsenal - who have three wins against Liverpool already this season - on 31 March follows the Villa match before Liverpool head off to the Netherlands to face Eindhoven three days later.
Benitez will not want further problems with domestic form to cloud preparation for the test against Ronald Koeman's Dutch league leaders.
Peter Crouch, who is recovering from a broken nose, could be back in action by then, and he is aware of the lack of goals.
Crouch said: "I get annoyed when people talk about us needing a regular goalscorer. Wen I've played this season I've scored. But I accept that goals are what is going to keep me in favour with the manager."