I'd rather lose some games whilst playing good football than winning most of the games by grafting and being lucky. Because I am SURE good football will give us good results in the long run, and crap football will get us relegated. Have we not learned any lessons from the past?
Monk's 2014/15 season with us was a fake one. It was pretty on paper, but still fake. As it was Sean Dyche's 2017/18 season with Burnley. Here is Burnley in 2018/19:
Why? Because it's easier to fix naivety at the back and lack of ability up front than fix the style of play.
You can't perfect free flowing attacking style of play if you don't apply it and practice it in the games you play. Ups and downs are perfectly normal. Do you really think opposition will always score 3 goals against us from three chances they create? Do you really think we'll always miss so many chances in front of the goal? Lack of concentration is a short term fix, attacking style of play is a long term fix.
Even for the best managers in the world it takes one to three years to fix structural problems. And God knows we have structural problems.
It took one year for Pep to fix Manchester City's defensive problems. We all know how they leaked goals in his first season there. It took Klopp three years to do the same. Look at Liverpool now. 19 games played, unbeaten, W16 D3 L0.
Manchester United fans laughed at Poch and Klopp in the past three years. No trophies they said. Mourinho, on the other hand, won the League Cup and the Europa League title. In the process Mourinho totally destroyed Manchester United by playing crapy, defensive football. They have no chance to win the Premier League title, whilst Klopp, Poch and Pep are in the title race.
So, dear friends, we need to be patient. Free flowing, attacking football will pay off in the long run. We have to look at the bigger picture, not only at some unlucky results.