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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight games at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and the home side argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort versus Manchester City prior to the international break. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role first 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 score a goal. Afterwards we barely generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the controlling team and were able to generate chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede find the net.”