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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side contended the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the talented players we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

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

Liverpool’s display unravelled as Slot made several attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the same away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back home Premier League fixtures by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they scored.

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