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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not 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 performance fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield league games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league matches by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected 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 entire season, 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 dominant side and were capable to generate chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our chances and the attempts we concede find the net.”