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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” following the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in seven Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the international break. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not provide enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot made several attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back at Anfield league fixtures against Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other game we have been the dominant side and were able to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”