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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way from the title holders' slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth loss in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But the manager conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we barely created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back home league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible result. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant side and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”