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Arne Slot declared he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and the home side contended Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as the coach introduced multiple attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home league fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were able to generate opportunities. Recently it is nearly consistently that we miss our chances and the attempts we concede find the net.”