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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a 6th loss in seven English top-flight games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal against Manchester City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we barely created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as Slot made several attacking substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant side and were able to generate chances. Recently it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we concede go in.”