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Arne Slot stated he needed to “look at myself” following the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City prior to the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

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

The team's display fell apart as Slot introduced several attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back at Anfield league games against Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow go in.”