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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches at home to Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display fell apart as the coach introduced multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield league games against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league games by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you face is a terrible result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

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