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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool endured a 6th loss in seven English top-flight matches at home against Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine my own role first and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the current losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as the coach made multiple attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games by Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you face is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling side and were able to create chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we allow go in.”