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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth loss in seven Premier League matches at home against Forest and affirmed he would find a way from the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City before the international break. But the manager admitted the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can not come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as Slot introduced multiple offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league matches by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to create chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede find the net.”