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Liverpool's head coach has announced that the team leadership share his views regarding the poor performance streak and he will not abandon their attacking style in search of a solution. The manager admitted that six unsuccessful results in seven games was unacceptable ahead of the weekend fixture with Villa.

Increasing Scrutiny During Tough Spell

Liverpool's coach recognized the expectations were high before his rotated squad suffered Carabao Cup elimination against their Premier League rivals. However, he insisted that this pressure to arrest the slide is not coming from the club's ownership or football administration following a significant spending of almost £450m.

"They say similar things," stated Slot, whose team next week face Real Madrid in the European competition and visit Manchester City in the domestic competition.

Player Depth Remains Unquestioned

Slot believes his team "possess an exceptional group if they are completely available and completely set for the programme we are facing". He said that the transfer window acquisitions in players such as the German international and Alexander Isak, who is expected to be sidelined again against Villa through injury, had left the club "in such a good place for the near future and the distant prospects".

Gelling Difficulties

When questioned about why his team were taking so long to gel, he replied: "That question isn't constructive. 'What's causing this?' I give an explanation and people say I'm offering alibis. I can come up with five or six reasons why we are struggling for victories or experiencing losses as we do but, as I consistently state, there are never enough excuses to have a performance streak as we had now."

• Even if I could list numerous reasons
• When you are Liverpool you must avoid losses
• In truth six out of seven

Defensive Numbers

Only the Lancashire club (twenty-one) have conceded more clear opportunities from open play this season than Liverpool (19). The first-place team, the North London club, have faced two. Yet Liverpool's coach rejects the team has been overly exposed and maintains there is no justification to abandon offensive philosophy for a cautious system after ten fixtures without a clean sheet.

"In my view we're not allowing many opportunities so I see no justification to alter our approach totally but we need to do better in preventing goals," he declared.

Recent Examples

"When facing United, how many openings did we give up? Against Eintracht Frankfurt when we were 3-1 up, we scarcely gave up a attempt on goal. In every match we have competed in we haven't given up a numerous openings. Absolutely not. We do concede a somewhat more than the previous campaign but that stems from us being 1-0 down so you become more adventurous. But typically I don't think that our challenge is that we allow too many opportunities. Our problem is we are unable to finish the openings we produce."