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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would find a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

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

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home league fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we allow find the net.”