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The Dutch manager has revealed that the club's hierarchy agree with his assessment regarding the team's slump and he will not abandon their attacking style in quest for a solution. The head coach admitted that six unsuccessful results in seven games was not good enough ahead of Saturday's match against Aston Villa.

Pressure Mounting Amid Challenging Phase

The manager acknowledged the expectations were high before his altered lineup were eliminated from the Carabao Cup against the London club. However, he emphasized that this pressure to arrest the slide is not coming from the team's proprietors or management structure following a substantial investment of nearly £450 million.

"Our views align," commented the manager, whose side will meet Real Madrid in the continental tournament and play against Pep Guardiola's side in the domestic competition.

Player Depth Stays Undoubted

The coach is convinced his team "boast a remarkable roster if they are fully healthy and fully prepared for the schedule ahead". He noted that the summer investment in players such as the attacking midfielder and Alexander Isak, who is probably unavailable again against Aston Villa through physical problems, had left the club "in such a good place for the short-term future and the distant prospects".

Integration Challenges

When asked why his team were taking so long to gel, he answered: "That question isn't constructive. 'Why, why, why?' I give an explanation and people say I'm making justifications. I can come up with 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 performance streak as we had now."

• Even if I could come up with numerous reasons
• Leading this club you cannot lose
• The reality is six out of seven

Backline Performance

Only the Clarets (twenty-one) have faced more big chances from regular play this season than the Merseysiders (19). The first-place team, the North London club, have conceded only two. Yet the manager disputes the champions have been too open and maintains there is no justification to sacrifice his attacking principles for a defensive approach after ten fixtures without a goalless performance.

"From my perspective we don't giving up numerous openings so I see no justification to modify our philosophy totally but we need to do better in not conceding goals," he declared.

Particular Cases

"Versus the Red Devils, how many opportunities did we allow? When playing Frankfurt when we were ahead by two goals, we barely allowed a attempt on goal. In each fixture we have played so far 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 play more openly. But typically I don't feel that our problem is that we give up too many openings. Our challenge is we don't score the openings we produce."