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Arne Slot stated he needed to “look at myself” following the Reds suffered a sixth loss in seven Premier League games on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the biggest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as the coach introduced multiple offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were able to generate chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow go in.”