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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th defeat in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the current losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not come up with enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display unravelled as the coach made multiple attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games against Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you face is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant side and were able to generate opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow find the net.”