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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight games at home against Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's chalked-off goal against City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with 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 performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”