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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we barely generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not provide enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as the coach made multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, 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 every other game we have been the controlling side and were capable to create chances. Recently it is almost constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we concede find the net.”