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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight games at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager admitted the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we barely created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot made several attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back home Premier League fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived 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 capable to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”