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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” following the Reds suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

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

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home league games by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant side and were able to create chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we allow find the net.”