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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a 6th loss in seven English top-flight games at home against Forest and affirmed he would find a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against Manchester City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself 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 generated any chances.

“Of course 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 considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display unravelled as the coach made multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the same away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield league fixtures by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were able to create chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow find the net.”