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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot "won't change a thing" with his tactical approach, despite the Reds going through a rocky period in recent weeks.
Liverpool beat Aston Villa at Anfield on Saturday to end a six-week wait for a Premier League win, and that was only the team's second win in eight games in all competitions.
Slot has faced criticism throughout Liverpool's difficult run of results, with the main one leveled at him that he has been too offensive at times, leaving the team lacking structure. That was something that he was accused of after the loss to Manchester United last month, when Liverpool ended the game with a plethora of attacking players on the field and ended up losing after a late Harry Maguire goal.
"It is a new one (Slot struggling)," Dutch football expert Marcel van der Kraan, a close friend of Slot, told the Daily Mail. "But I am looking at him in every interview, and on the touchline, to try and discover if there is a change in his behaviour, character or actions.
"I know him really well and I have to say, there is not the slightest change. He is calm, composed, absolutely not in panic mode, exactly how I know him. And I do not expect him to panic either, or to change.
"This guy is so confident about what he is doing. This makes me think he will turn it around. I don't have doubts. The only managers I know with the same self-confidence are Cruyff and Guardiola.
"I worked (as a football writer) closely with Cruyff in the 1980s and 1990s and could not believe how cool he was under any circumstances. And all three… Cruyff, Pep, Arne, have this same style of football.
"They love all this building up, tiki taka some call it, but lots of movement and high pressure. And all three of them have always realised you get punished now and again. A massive counter-attack defeat, exposed by the space behind the defence on the halfway line.
"It happened to Cruyff with Ajax and Barca, it happened to Pep and it happened to Arne. Don't forget Arne is a massive fan of the Cruyff school. They just accept these moments, however for Arne it is going on too long of course now. That is what makes it tense.
"But he won’t change a thing."
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