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Arne Slot declared he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in seven Premier League matches at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the title holders' slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the biggest win at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they entered 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 able to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our chances and the attempts we allow go in.”