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Arne Slot stated he had to “look at myself” following the Reds endured a 6th defeat in seven Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“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 considering: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield league games by Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant side and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”