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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s first goal should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games against Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost consecutive top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

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