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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a 6th defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against City before the international break. But the manager conceded 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 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Later we barely generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League fixtures against Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered consecutive league matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”