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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches at home against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the biggest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role first and my team, but it does show you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely created any chances.

“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 improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same on the road at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole season, and the first time they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant team and were able to create opportunities. Recently it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow find the net.”