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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games at home against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would find a solution from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the talented players we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot made multiple offensive changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Forest in 1963. The last time they lost consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant side and were capable to create opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”