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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth loss in seven English top-flight matches at home against Forest and insisted he would discover a way out of the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against Manchester City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

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

The team's display unravelled as Slot made multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league games against Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the opening half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate chances. Recently it is nearly consistently that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”