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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a 6th loss in seven Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would find a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself first and my squad, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not come up with enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home league fixtures by Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we miss our chances and the ones we concede go in.”