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Liverpool's head coach has revealed that the team leadership agree with his assessment regarding the team's slump and he will not abandon their attacking style in quest for a improvement. The manager admitted that six defeats in seven outings was unacceptable ahead of the weekend fixture with Villa.

Pressure Mounting Throughout Tough Spell

Slot accepted the scrutiny was intense before his altered lineup suffered Carabao Cup elimination against the London club. However, he insisted that this pressure to arrest the slide is not coming from the team's proprietors or football administration following a substantial investment of almost £450m.

"We share common perspectives," remarked the Liverpool boss, whose side will meet Real Madrid in the European competition and visit the Citizens in the domestic competition.

Player Depth Stays Unquestioned

Liverpool's manager thinks his team "have an unbelievable squad if they are fully healthy and fully prepared for the schedule ahead". He said that the summer investment in players such as the German international and the forward, who is probably unavailable again against Aston Villa through injury, had left the club "in an excellent position for the short-term future and the long-term future".

Team Cohesion Issues

When questioned about why his team were having difficulty blending, he replied: "That question isn't constructive. 'What are the reasons?' I give an explanation and people say I'm making justifications. I can identify several explanations why we are not winning as much or experiencing losses as we do but, as I say every time, there are insufficient justifications to have a run of form as we had now."

• No matter if I could identify numerous reasons
• When you are Liverpool you cannot lose
• The reality is six losses from seven matches

Defensive Numbers

Only the Lancashire club (21) have conceded more clear opportunities from regular play this season than Liverpool (nineteen). The table-toppers, the North London club, have conceded only two. Yet the manager disputes the team has been overly exposed and asserts there is no justification to compromise forward-thinking approach for a defensive approach after ten matches without a shutout.

"From my perspective we don't allowing many opportunities so I see no justification to change our playing style totally but we need to do better in preventing goals," he stated.

Recent Examples

"When facing United, how many openings did we give up? When playing Frankfurt when we were ahead by two goals, we scarcely gave up a effort at our net. In each fixture we have played so far we haven't given up a many opportunities. Absolutely not. We do concede a bit more than the previous campaign but that is related to us being 1-0 down so you become more adventurous. But in general I don't feel that our problem is that we allow too many opportunities. Our issue is we don't score the openings we produce."