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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following the Reds suffered a 6th loss in seven Premier League games at home against Forest and affirmed he would find a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should look at my own role initially and my squad, but it does show you how a score can alter the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a way out, especially 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 want to emphasise I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display fell apart as the coach introduced several offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the opening half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is almost constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”