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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League games at home against Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely generated any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not provide sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display unravelled as the coach made multiple offensive substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back league games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow go in.”