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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool endured a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight matches at home against Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not come up with enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Forest last season,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home Premier League fixtures against Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were able to generate opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”