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Arne Slott He believes he has retained the support of his masters liverpoolDespite their extraordinary meltdown, and say they share an explanation of why it happened Premier League the champions have lost six of their last seven matches In all competitions.
Slote is in the worst form of his career as Liverpool host Aston Villa on Saturday after suffering four consecutive Premier League defeats. Carabao eliminated from the cup To the Crystal Palace.
The Dutchman is in regular contact with director of football Richard Hughes, while Liverpool’s other decision makers include Fenway Sports’ football CEO Michael Edwards, Liverpool CEO Billy Hogan, FSG chairman Mike Gordon, FSG chairman Tom Werner and FSG principal owner John W. Henry.
he feels Injuries are a big reason To their dismay, along with waiting for new players to be ready, and seeing no reason to change their playing style. Slott says his employers agree with his analysis.
“To me, they say similar things,” he said. “I mainly talk to Richard and sometimes others. They see the same things I see. For me the conversation hasn’t changed much. We always talk about the game and if you’ve lost it’s always better to talk about the game than if you’ve won.”
slots he is conscious has been accused of making excuses And the narrative is eager to address. “I give explanations and people say I’m looking for excuses,” he said. “I can come up with five or six reasons why we’re probably not winning as much or losing as much as we do. But every time I say that there are never enough excuses to be in as good form as we have now.”
Slott argues that the results are an unfair reflection of recent matches and said that he does not need to adopt a more pragmatic style of play.
“It goes against my beliefs but I have won games away from Manchester City in the past [last season] Maybe it goes against my belief, but it was necessary to play like this in the second half – so I will be prepared to adapt in certain situations. But I don’t think the story, at least in my opinion, is that we take one opportunity after another and are too open.
“We hardly concede any chances and create a lot. That’s how I see it. But we give away a little more than last season but that always has to do with us being 1-0 down so you take a little more risk. But in general I don’t think our issue is that we miss too many chances. Our issue is that we don’t score the chances we create.
“against [Manchester] United, how many chances did we miss? And we were so aggressive because every time you are 1-0 down you need to take even more risks. against [Eintracht] For example, Frankfurt, when we were leading 3-1, we barely missed a single shot on goal.”
In those seven games, with Liverpool beat Frankfurt 5-1 And having lost the others, they have more shots at five, and less at one. They have had more shots on target in three, and less in three others. His goals in four have been highly anticipated. They gave their opponents 83 shots, 37 of which were on target. But in a period in which they have been pointless in the Premier League, they have the highest number of expected goals in the division.
However, Slote continued: “So in all the games we’ve played so far we haven’t missed too many chances. Not at all. If I go one by one, which you can, look at the Brentford game for example. The first goal is a set-piece, the second goal is a counterattack when we were perfectly organized but he was not defending to our standards, and the third is close to a ridiculous penalty. Well, we were defending less at that moment.”
Slot defense has brought early trouble for new full-backs Jeremy Frimpong and Milos Kerkez. The Hungarian arrived from Bournemouth but the Dutchman, bought from Bayer Leverkusen, is one of five summer arrivals without Premier League experience. Slott noted that everyone on last season’s team, except Federico Chiesa, had benefited from it. This is an issue, as well as the difficulty some players face in coping with three matches in a week amidst injuries.
Yet he is adamant that it was right to keep a smaller squad as he insists Liverpool took the right approach. “I firmly believe that all my teams had 20 or 21 players who can play because if you have too many players it is already a struggle to make a team,” he explained. “If they are all fit and ready for the schedule we face then we have an incredible team.
“I’m absolutely happy with the squad, with all the quality we have and absolutely confident with our strategy and policy. If all these players are fit, we have a lot of quality. This club is in such a good place when you look at the quality we have for the short-term future and the long-term future.”