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Liverpool's head coach has revealed that the team leadership share his views regarding the recent downturn and he has no intention of discarding their attacking style in pursuit of a solution. The tactician conceded that six unsuccessful results in seven outings was not good enough ahead of Aston Villa's visit.

Increasing Scrutiny Amid Tough Spell

The manager acknowledged the scrutiny was intense before his makeshift team exited the Carabao Cup against their Premier League rivals. However, he insisted that this pressure to arrest the slide is not coming from the team's proprietors or football administration following a summer transfer outlay of approximately £450 million.

"They say similar things," commented the Liverpool boss, whose team next week face Los Blancos in the Champions League and travel to Manchester City in the Premier League.

Team Strength Continues Undoubted

The coach is convinced his team "have an unbelievable squad if they are all fit and all ready for the programme we are facing". He said that the transfer window acquisitions in footballers like the attacking midfielder and Alexander Isak, who is probably unavailable again against Aston Villa through injury, had left the club "in such a good place for the short-term future and the long-term future".

Team Cohesion Issues

When pressed on why his team were taking so long to gel, he responded: "You don't really help me. 'What are the reasons?' I give an explanation and people say I'm offering alibis. I can list several explanations why we are struggling for victories or suffering defeats as we do but, as I say every time, there are insufficient justifications to have a results sequence as we had now."

• Even if I could identify numerous reasons
• When you are Liverpool you should not suffer defeats
• The reality is six losses from seven matches

Defensive Statistics

Only the Lancashire club (21) have faced more big chances from normal situations this season than Slot's team (nineteen). The table-toppers, the Gunners, have faced two. Yet Liverpool's coach rejects the defense has been too vulnerable and claims there is no justification to compromise forward-thinking approach for a more pragmatic style after ten matches without a goalless performance.

"I don't see us giving up numerous openings so I don't see a reason to change our playing style completely but we must improve in not conceding goals," he declared.

Recent Examples

"When facing United, how many chances did we concede? When playing Frankfurt when we were 3-1 up, we hardly conceded a attempt on goal. In each fixture we played until now we haven't given up a numerous openings. Definitely not. We do give away a somewhat more than the previous campaign but that has to do with us being trailing by a goal so you take a bit more risk. But overall I don't feel that our problem is that we concede too many chances. Our challenge is we don't score the openings we produce."