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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and affirmed he would find a solution out of the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot introduced several offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate opportunities. Recently it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow find the net.”