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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight games at home against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's chalked-off goal against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes 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 look at my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not provide sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display fell apart as the coach introduced multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the opening half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling side and were able to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”