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

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th loss in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and the home side contended the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Later we barely created anything.

“Naturally 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: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning 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 far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back home league fixtures by Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you face is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were able to generate opportunities. Lately it is almost constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”