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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” after the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in 7 English top-flight games at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were able to generate chances. Recently it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”