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Liverpool's head coach has revealed that the team leadership agree with his assessment regarding the recent downturn and he has no intention of discarding their forward-thinking philosophy in quest for a solution. The tactician admitted that six unsuccessful results in seven outings was not good enough ahead of Saturday's match against Aston Villa.

Growing Expectations During Tough Spell

Slot accepted the expectations were high before his rotated squad suffered Carabao Cup elimination against the London club. However, he insisted that this urgency to stop the losing streak is not coming from the team's proprietors or management structure following a substantial investment of approximately £450 million.

"They say similar things," stated the Liverpool boss, whose side will meet Los Blancos in the Champions League and visit Pep Guardiola's side in the domestic competition.

Team Strength Continues Undoubted

The coach is convinced his team "possess an exceptional group if they are completely available and all ready for the schedule ahead". He noted that the recent signings in footballers like the attacking midfielder and the forward, who is probably unavailable again against the Birmingham club through fitness issues, had left the club "in such a good place for the immediate prospects and the distant prospects".

Gelling Difficulties

When pressed on why his team were struggling to integrate, he responded: "That question isn't constructive. 'Why, why, why?' I give an explanation and people say I'm coming up with excuses. I can come up with several explanations why we are not winning as much or suffering defeats as we do but, as I consistently state, there are inadequate reasons to have a performance streak as we had now."

• No matter if I could list numerous reasons
• As Liverpool manager you must avoid losses
• Unfortunately six out of seven

Defensive Statistics

Only Burnley (21) have faced more big chances from normal situations this season than the Merseysiders (19). The table-toppers, the North London club, have allowed just two. Yet the manager disputes the champions have been too open and asserts there is no reason to sacrifice his attacking principles for a cautious system after 10 games without a goalless performance.

"In my view we're not allowing many opportunities so I don't see a reason to alter our approach entirely but we have to enhance in preventing goals," he stated.

Recent Examples

"Versus the Red Devils, how many opportunities did we allow? When playing Frankfurt when we were leading 3-1, we barely allowed a effort at our net. In each fixture we played until now we haven't given up a many opportunities. Absolutely not. We do concede a slightly more than the previous campaign but that stems from us being trailing by a goal so you play more openly. But overall I don't believe that our issue is that we give up too many openings. Our issue is we are unable to finish the openings we produce."