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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in seven Premier League games on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort against City before the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot made several offensive changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back league matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”