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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself first and my squad, but it does show you how a score can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current losses. You are responsible when you are winning but also liable when you are defeated. I can not come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot made multiple offensive substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league games by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial half-hour maybe 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 all other game we have been the dominant side and were capable to create opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”