Liverpool must sacrifice control in games in order to fix their creativity problems, Andoni Iraola has demanded ahead of their weekend trip to Crystal Palace, live on Sky Sports.
The Reds have created the second-fewest big chances in the Premier League this season and scored only four goals in five home games, their joint-fewest at this stage of a season in their history.
They set an unwanted record against Arsenal last weekend, failing to register a shot on target in a home Premier League game for the first time in more than 440 games since Opta records began in 2003.
Iraola arrived at Anfield last summer with a reputation for front-foot, direct football but has had difficulties imposing his philosophy on his new players in the first three months of the season, and now wants them to take more risks to turn their domination into clear-cut opportunities.
He said: "Obviously, we want to score more and concede fewer. It's a matter of controlling the games but also sometimes, against Fenerbahce we were controlling the game too much.
"In possession we can have good positions, but sometimes we have to throw numbers inside the box, arrive with more players.
"It will take a little bit of control away, but it will give us more threat when we arrive. Especially against Arsenal, the way we attacked the box had to be better.
"We are one of the teams which arrives the most in the final third. In terms of volume of shots and crosses, we are very high - but if you analyse the quality level of chance, it is low.
"When we start losing games, attacking against a lot of positions, it's not going to be the quality of the chances.
"The number of times we get to the box, we have to arrive better. Even if that means losing some control, we have to get into the six-yard box more. It will give us more clear shots."
Liverpool 'too honest' after penalty shouts rejected
Liverpool's 1.05xG in Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Arsenal would have been significantly boosted had they been awarded a clear penalty for a shirt pull by Jurrien Timber on Alexander Isak.
Iraola admitted after the game he felt a spot kick would have been awarded had Isak gone to ground, and after being praised by the officials in Wednesday's Champions League defeat at Fenerbahce feels his side can be "too honest".
"We are an honest group. Too honest, sometimes," he said. "The referee congratulated us after the game on Wednesday, and I don't know if I liked that.
"It has to be genuine. You cannot fake things. When we complain, it has to be a genuine complaint.
"I feel we are willing, obviously, we're a team that wants to press and be intense. But the balance there is a big difference."
Iraola praises Isak after strong start
Isak has scored six of Liverpool's 11 Premier League goals this season after struggling with injury and form in his first year at Anfield.
Despite the Reds' wider goalscoring problems he sits second only to Erling Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot, leaving Iraola full of praise for the forward who has already doubled his league tally from last season.
"Alex is a top goal scorer," he said. "If we can put him more in the position to score he will deliver, that is not a guarantee but is the closest thing to a guarantee.
"Like every player, he can add more things to his game but we want to use [more] the things that he has. He is very good at attacking the space, attacking the channels, coming to receive the ball is very clean, also.
"We are trying to use Isak in the best way."
Analysis: What is behind Liverpool's creativity issue?
Sky Sports' Nick Wright:
"Liverpool's total of 140 shots this season is the fifth-highest among Premier League sides. But they rank much lower for both goals scored and expected goals, in ninth and 11th respectively.
"Their shot locations help to explain the disparity. Closer-range shots typically have a higher probability of going in. Liverpool, though, have taken a large chunk of their total from long distance.
"The Reds have the fourth-highest percentage of shots from outside the box in the division at 39 per cent, behind only Manchester United, Hull and Newcastle, all of whom sit in the bottom half of the Premier League table nine games into the season.
"By contrast, Liverpool's proportion of shots from inside the six-yard box is the sixth-lowest in the division, at eight per cent.
"It is worth noting the two sides with the highest percentages of shots from inside the six-yard box are leaders Arsenal and second-placed Manchester City on 17 per cent and 13 per cent respectively."