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Arne Slot has revealed that the club's hierarchy share his views regarding the recent downturn and he has no intention of discarding their attacking style in quest for a solution. The head coach admitted that six unsuccessful results in seven outings was not good enough ahead of Saturday's match against Aston Villa.

Pressure Mounting Amid Tough Spell

The manager acknowledged the scrutiny was intense before his rotated squad exited the Carabao Cup against their Premier League rivals. However, he maintained that this need to reverse the decline is not coming from the club's ownership or management structure following a significant spending of approximately £450 million.

"They say similar things," commented Slot, whose squad will encounter the Spanish giants in the continental tournament and travel to Manchester City in the Premier League.

Team Strength Stays Undoubted

The coach is convinced his team "have an unbelievable squad if they are completely available and all ready for the programme we are facing". He noted that the summer investment in footballers like the German international and Alexander Isak, who is likely to miss out again against Aston Villa through physical problems, had left the club "in an excellent position for the near future and the long-term future".

Integration Challenges

When pressed on why his team were struggling to integrate, he replied: "That's not particularly helpful. 'Why, why, why?' I provide reasons and people say I'm offering alibis. I can list five or six reasons why we are struggling for victories or suffering defeats as we do but, as I consistently state, there are never enough excuses to have a run of form as we had now."

• No matter if I could come up with multiple factors
• Leading this club you must avoid losses
• Unfortunately six out of seven

Backline Performance

Only the Clarets (21) have faced more big chances from open play this season than Liverpool (19). The league leaders, the Gunners, have conceded only two. Yet the manager disputes the champions have been too open and asserts there is no basis to sacrifice his attacking principles for a cautious system after ten fixtures without a shutout.

"I don't see us allowing many opportunities so I find no basis to change our playing style totally but we need to do better in not conceding goals," he said.

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 attempt on goal. In every match we played until now we haven't allowed a numerous openings. Definitely not. We do concede a somewhat more than the prior term but that is related to us being trailing by a goal so you take a bit more risk. But overall I don't feel that our issue is that we give up too many openings. Our issue is we fail to convert the opportunities we generate."