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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in seven English top-flight matches at home against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would find a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th defeat in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal 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 talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine myself first and my team, but it does show you how a goal can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented players we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as the coach introduced multiple attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield league fixtures against Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant side and were able to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow go in.”