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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” following the Reds endured a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role first and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

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

The team's performance unravelled as Slot made several offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial half-hour maybe the whole season, and the first time 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 dominant team and were able to create opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”