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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in seven Premier League matches at home against Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph 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 doubting yourself.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot made multiple offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back home league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate opportunities. Recently it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow go in.”