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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” following the Reds endured a sixth defeat in 7 English top-flight games at home against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can not come up with enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as the coach introduced several offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the dominant side and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we concede go in.”