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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a sixth loss in seven Premier League matches at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s first goal should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City before the national team pause. But the manager conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can not provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as Slot made several attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league games against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we miss our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”